Even if you don’t know Rian Hughes, you know Rian Hughes.
The award-winning British graphic designer, illustrator, comic book artist, and writer’s portfolio includes Batman, Dan Dare, Spider Man, Hed Kandi, Swatch, and more. Now he brings us his genre-bending debut XX published by Picador on 20/08/20 (’The best genre book of the last 25 years’—Grant Morrison). What’s more, each copy comes with a QR code linking to an album made for the book.
Supplementing the novel is an album of music, remixed from the extraterrestrial signal itself. “Citizen Void” by Celestial Mechanic (DJ Food and Saron Hughes) is available via the QR code in the book.
Are you ready for a reading experience unlike anything else? The battle for your mind has already begun.
Twisting design, typography and layout of the page to tell its story, XX is Science Fiction’s House of Leaves, with the novel’s world building and layered story appealing to fans of The Three-Body Problem, Seveneves, and Ted Chiang’s short stories. It deconstructs layout and language in order to explore the way ideas propagate and presents a compelling vision of humanity’s unique place in the universe alongside a realistic depiction of what might happen in the wake of the biggest scientific discovery in human history.
The hardback is being sold at all good stores for £20.