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Brian Allen Carr is like the Cormac McCarthy of weird fiction. His prose is literary as hell, even when he’s writing about the most fantastic things you’ve ever heard of. It never reads as pretentious or flowery for the sake of flowery. This is a guy who wrote a book that’s basically Sharknado in the Old West, slapped the MF-word in the title, and it still comes off as real, honest-to-goodness literature. Sip is his first book from a major publisher. It’s every bit as fun and well-written as his small press stuff.

The setting of Sip might classify it as a Space Western. It’s a dystopian future; everything has turned to crap, and high technology has been lost. They’ve got guns and trains, and one DIY machine that keeps severed limbs alive to milk shadows from. You see, what separates this from other Space Westerns is how we got to this F’ed-up future: people have learned you can get super high huffing shadows, and society falls as a result of this addictive scourge.

Sip’s got a big, diverse and well-painted cast, and a bunch of subplots. It’s Carr’s most ambitious effort yet, and succeeds on every level. This is easily one of the best books of the year. I listened to the Audible version, and the narrator did a great job bringing the characters and the story to life.


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Sip Brian Allen Carr 9781616958275 Books Reviews

I never thought a book would make me look at shadows with suspicion. Brian Allen Carr is a bad man. Dude is the Aaron Rodgers of indie writers.

He’s literary AF but his books move and pace as well as any pro genre fiction out there. His last two novellas have been unique, entertaining, artful, and probably some of the best books labeled Bizarro in this decade. He’s killed it in the small press & novella scene but I always wondered can he bring the same magic to the novel?

That was some pointless pondering because SIP is easily his best book. It has one of the best hooks I’ve heard in awhile people can get high by sipping on their shadows. Sold.

But…the only problem with many high concept books is the writers don’t pull them off and the characters are plot beats instead of human beings. BAR doesn’t fall into that trap and I enjoyed spending time with Mira, shadow junkie Murk, and Bale as they look for a way to survive living in the shadows.

I am seeing more and more great books come out that blur in the lines between genre and literary that are as weird as they are artful. I love it and I want more books like his! Writers like Carr, Victor LaValle’s & Alissa Nutting’s latest, and the upcoming Marlon James series are taking the best of genre fiction and adding a literary level that has me excited about this new direction in fiction. Carr’s novel takes genre fiction out of the shadows and shows why stories are the only way we can see the light.
Love it. Excellent ride.
A weird, mythic feeling story that takes place in a future that feels like the past that's about family and addiction; starring folks who drink each other's shadows to get high. Dreamy, haunted, big ideas and deep hurt carried by great dialogue from well carved characters, the book soaks the cotton of your brain with its sludged blood until there's no cleaning it from behind your eyes.

Also there's laughs.
Carr is at the top of his game with this one. There's family drama, but it's the kind where a daughter must rob the shadows of woodland creatures to feed the darkness to her mother so she can sleep. There's a kind of broken hope and half-hearted optimism in Murk, a peg-legged shadow junkie with a tender soul behind black eyes. There's an exiled tower guard, childishly curious to find the truth about the broken world outside his sheltered, follow-the-rules-with-no-questions upbringing. And it all flows like hallucinatory drugs that have been dumped in a rushing stream. One of the best books of the year... of the decade... of all-time.
Sip is a haunting and thought-provoking novel. It takes place in a future world of addiction, where people drink shadows to maintain a steady high. Any animated life-form's shadow can produce the desired effect, provided that the light source is the natural sun. What is a shadow? Is it simply the absence of light? Can a shadow be stolen? The nature of absence is a key point in this story. Some people live sheltered from the effects of sunlight in domes, avoiding the influence of shadow. The rest of the world lives wild, either hunting down shadows or dealing with the loss of their own dark reflections. Vigilantes have learned to hide their own shadows, while another survivor can make her own appear and disappear at will. Belief systems are strong in this world, where the immanent appearance of Halley's Comet is meant to change everything.

The vignettes and characters that make up this book are resonant, drawing the reader in with their immediacy. Brian Allen Carr weaves a tapestry of fine language, utilizing words that are crafted with so much substance that you can feel their contours. Their shadows are etched in my memory.
Brian Allen Carr is like the Cormac McCarthy of weird fiction. His prose is literary as hell, even when he’s writing about the most fantastic things you’ve ever heard of. It never reads as pretentious or flowery for the sake of flowery. This is a guy who wrote a book that’s basically Sharknado in the Old West, slapped the MF-word in the title, and it still comes off as real, honest-to-goodness literature. Sip is his first book from a major publisher. It’s every bit as fun and well-written as his small press stuff.

The setting of Sip might classify it as a Space Western. It’s a dystopian future; everything has turned to crap, and high technology has been lost. They’ve got guns and trains, and one DIY machine that keeps severed limbs alive to milk shadows from. You see, what separates this from other Space Westerns is how we got to this F’ed-up future people have learned you can get super high huffing shadows, and society falls as a result of this addictive scourge.

Sip’s got a big, diverse and well-painted cast, and a bunch of subplots. It’s Carr’s most ambitious effort yet, and succeeds on every level. This is easily one of the best books of the year. I listened to the Audible version, and the narrator did a great job bringing the characters and the story to life.