Riddley

My copy of Riddley Walker is the 2002 edition from Bloomsbury in the UK, with an introduction by Will Self, and my edition of Little, Big is in the series Fantasy Masterworks, published by Millennium, an imprint of Gollancz, in 2000.

MIND MELD: The Forgotten Books of SF/F/H 2009

The future was no longer an island paradise but instead a totalitarian state (1984), a planet decimated by disease (The Stand), or a world so degraded by nuclear war that even language had begun to devolve (Riddley Walker).

John Feffer: Pinker: Pollyanna of Peace? John Feffer 2012

Riddley Walker, also written by Hoban, is a post-apocalyptic (?) novel about life among the villages in England when it's no longer England, but a rural place with its own rituals and religion.

Archive 2009-01-01 Heather McDougal 2009

These include two of my all-time favourites, John Crowley's classic folkloric fantasy novel, Little, Big (1981) and Russell Hoban's Riddley Walker (1980).

MIND MELD: The Forgotten Books of SF/F/H 2009

Then there are loosely connected classics such as On the Beach, Fiskadoro, Riddley Walker and more.

Greg Mitchell: Writers and The Bomb: Novel Takes on the Nuclear Age Greg Mitchell 2011

Hmm, what you write about "Riddley Walker" rather reminds me of the post-acpocalyptic story line in David Mitchell's "Cloud Atlas". wonder whether that's where the author got his inspiration ...

Reading, Young and Old Heather McDougal 2009

This is Riddley-speak and it's a sort of post-apocalyptic patois spoken by Riddley and the various peoples who live in a desolate Kent thousands of years after a nuclear holocaust.

Archive 2009-01-01 Heather McDougal 2009

Riddley Walker, also written by Hoban, is a post-apocalyptic (?) novel about life among the villages in England when it's no longer England, but a rural place with its own rituals and religion.

Reading, Young and Old Heather McDougal 2009

This is Riddley-speak and it's a sort of post-apocalyptic patois spoken by Riddley and the various peoples who live in a desolate Kent thousands of years after a nuclear holocaust.

Reading, Young and Old Heather McDougal 2009

Electronically, i am placing Riddley Walker in your hand.

Choosing What Not to Read | The Long Write 2010