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Yarn and Grey are now audiobooks from Audible.com! (Listen to my podcast about the making of them.)
Yarn is Nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award.
Barnes & Noble.com Names YARN by Jon Armstrong the Best Science Fiction Novel of the Year!
(It’s at Amazon and Barnes & Noble! on-line, but do check your local bookstore!)
From the neo-feudalistic slubs, the corn-filled world of Tane’s youth, to his apprenticeship among the deadly saleswarriors of Seattlehama–the sex-and-shopping capital of the world–to the horrors of a polluted Antartica, Yarn tells a stylish tale of love, deceit, and memory.
Meet Sugimoto-san, the Real-Life Inspiration for My Novel, YARN (Video)
Fashion Sketches from the World of YARN (Video)
Behind-the-scenes Making of the Cover (Video)
The Water-Shears Model from the Cover Illustration
Jon Armstrong reads from YARN (Podcast)
YARN Editor Juliet Ulman Talks Writing, Red Ink, Her Moods, and YARN (Podcast)
Publisher’s Weekly gave YARN a starred review:
“Armstrong’s stand-alone prequel to his 2007 debut, Grey, is set in the same superficial, dystopic near-future ruled by fashion and consumerism. Cities like Seattlehama are towering bastions of “sex and shopping” where “saleswarriors” and “salessoldiers” battle for customers. Most people live in the sprawling agricultural areas called slubs. Tane Cedar, one of the world’s top fashion designers, is confounded when his former lover Vada, a fugitive revolutionary, inexplicably appears near death in his showroom and asks him to complete the impossible task of finding illegal yarn and making a coat of it in just one day. Tane’s quest confronts him with the tyranny and hopelessness of the world outside of the cities while answering his questions about his nightmarish childhood and enigmatic father. Armstrong’s stylized tale is a profoundly moving fusion of visionary images and compelling social commentary.”
“A fascinating romp that brings to mind the best of M. John Harrison and John Brunner . . . Armstrong weaves a tapestry that could be the start of New Wave 2.0. A brilliant epic, unlike anything else out there.”
–David J. Williams, author of The Autumn Rain trilogy
“Yarn is tragic and funny in the best kinds of ways. It’s a hypnotic, exhilirating SF epic, reminiscent of Brave New World, A Scanner Darkly, and Gibson’s Neuromancer—with eyeball kicks galore. The prose is a blast, jammed with the kicky jabbering of futuristic fashionista jive. And in some deep sense, Yarn is about the world we live in right now. Jon Armstrong is one of the best new SF writers to emerge in years.”
—Rudy Rucker, author of THE WARE TETRALOGY
Jon Armstrong is a speculative fiction writer. His first novel, Grey, was published in 2007 and was short-listed for the Philip K Dick Award. That same year, Jon was also nominated for the Campbell Award for Best New SF Writer.
