Interviewed by Ross Rojek

Felix Gilman lives in New York, where he works as a lawyer. Thunderer is his first published novel, and his forty-seventh completed manuscript.

Previous works — all so far unpublished — include Precious Things; The Staggering Velocity of Beauty; The Bluest Sky; The Golden Light of Distant Stars; Bliss; Suicide Note; Despair; Razor Night, Blood Morning, Shit Lunch; Lithium Nightmares; You Won’t Even Open This Submission, Will You, You Bastards?; Fuck You Then, World; Self-Satisfied Sons of Bitches in Shiny New York Offices; iL’l Kil Yuo; I’m So, So Sorry; The Artistic Bankruptcy of the Publishing Establishment: An Investigation in Seven Parts; the short story collection Eighteen Motherfuckers Who Think They’re Better Than Me; J’Accuse! Vol. I; J’Accuse! Vol. II; J’Accuse! Vol. III; How to Assemble a Letter Bomb; and Prozac: A Memoir.

Following a lengthy hiatus, novels of Gilman’s middle period include The Law School Trilogy — One L, Two L, and Whatever (unfinished). He is also the author of the unpublished legal thrillers Final Judgment; Stare Decisis!; Full Faith and Credit; Collaterally Estopped; and Death by Document Review.

Thunderer is the product of a late-period creative burst during which Gilman also authored Valley of the Half-Ogres; DarkRaven: Robot WolfMage; Hooray for Wizard School!; Elves and Sexy Vampires; and City That Vaguely Reminds You Of Borges Or Gormenghast Or Something.

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