Praise for Model Actress Whatever:
“Anarchic, exuberant and endlessly inventive. This may be the best superhero movie I’ve ever read.”
M.R. Carey, internationally bestselling author of Infinity Gate
“Kim Newman's florid fantasies can’t be pitched as a cross between this and that, they’re an explosion of genre TNT in pop-art baubles of verbal delight that fizz on the page.”
Stephen Volk, writer of Ghostwatch and The Good Unknown
“Newman’s trademarks are razor-sharp prose, a biting wit and big finishes you never see coming but always feel inevitably perfect – all of which are fully on display in Model Actress Whatever. This is a spectacular, alt-reality superhero story, almost operatic in its scale, and splendidly Newmanesque. Highly recommended.”
Angela “A.G.” Slatter, award-winning author of The Cold House
“What if Austin Powers (only filmed by Brits) had a baby with EastEnders (also filmed by Brits), and it grew up to be a (British) version of the Adam West era Batman, driving a Jensen Interceptor?”
Charles Stross, author of The Laundry Files series
“Set in an alternate history Enlightened by a magically mysterious Beatles’ chord, Model Actress Whatever brings Newman’s Diogenes Club series bang up to date and dives deep into the superhero mythos. Fast and furiously funny, exuberantly imaginative and achingly hip, this is Newman at the top of his game.”
Paul McAuley, author of Loss Protocol
“Somehow manages to be futuristic and nostalgic at the same time”
M.A. Bennett, author of No Escape
“When it comes to the dazzling creation of a fantasy world which is both like and unlike our own, Kim Newman has no peers. This sardonically funny vision of empty celebrity, and quirky superheroes set in an alternative London has all the untrammelled wordplay and inventiveness of his masterpiece Anno Dracula.”
Barry Forshaw, Financial Times
“With Model Actress Whatever, the always transgressive Kim Newman subverts the superhero genre with all the aplomb that he brought to vampires in Anno Dracula.”
Stephen Jones, award-winning editor and writer
“The powerline connection between Michael Moorcock and the spangly multiverse lunacy of the present moment, this is an exciting, literary, urgent venture into what happens to super heroes as they cross the Atlantic, and why. Newman transcends pastiche and ends up telling the truth very loudly. Unmissable.”
Paul Cornell, author of the Witches of Lychford series
