The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad
By Minister Faust
(Del Rey, Paperback, 9780345466358, 544pp.)
Publication Date: August 3, 2004
Categories: Science Fiction - General
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Hamza and Yehat are The Coyote Kings–best friends, one a disgruntled dishwasher and the other a video store clerk, but each brilliant in his own right. Yehat builds prototypes of space-age inventions in his spare time, while Hamza, a former English honors student who was kicked out of the university, writes lush, lyrical poems when he’s not blocked–which, these days, is nearly always.
When the gorgeous, mysterious Sherem shows up in E-Town decked out in desert finery, Hamza’s creative spark is ignited. Who is this sophisticated woman that speaks arcane African tongues, quotes from obscure comics and Star Wars movies, yet seems somehow too ethereal for the world Hamza inhabits? And what is the lost artifact that she and a cast of coiffed collectors and criminal cultists so desperately seek? As Hamza falls blindly in love with Sherem, little does he know that he and Yehat play the biggest part of all in the recovery of the ancient relic–and in the future of all living beings. . . .
“Off the freakin’ hook. Minister Faust writes a funky Afrofuturistic vision of Canada (Edmonton, no less), and does so with heart, style, humor, and attitude to spare.”
–NALO HOPKINSON
Award-winning author of Midnight Robber and The Salt Roads
“ENDLESSLY ENTERTAINING . . . Incredibly imaginative and bulging with pop culture and political references, this is a trip unlike anything you’ve ever read.”
–TANANARIVE DUE
Award-winning author of The Good House and The Living Blood
“The Coyote Kings is outrageously hilarious and horrifying by turns. With a sharply satiric intelligence and immense imagination, Minister Faust is an exciting new voice in the field.”
–SHEREE R. THOMAS
Editor of the World Fantasy Award—winning Dark Matter:
A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora
“Minister Faust has a voice that has to be experienced to be believed. Once you read Coyote Kings, you’ll never forget it.”
–STEVEN BARNES
Author of Lion’s Blood and Zulu Heart
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