Then, from the perspective of the literary world at least, he disappeared. Hudson was included in the New Yorker’s 2001 debut fiction issue – with Jonathan Safran Foer and Nell Freudenberger – and then in Granta’s Best Young American Novelists list in 2007, alongside Foer and Freudenberger again, as well as Karen Russell, Yiyun Li and Anthony Doerr, among others. President made about as big of a splash as a story collection can make. Gork is less Game of Thrones and more The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy with fire-breathing characters and a John Hughes-esque plot.įifteen years ago, Hudson’s Gulf War satire Dear Mr. Then again, some dragons, like Gork, are sensitive souls with puny horns and Will to Power ratings of a mere “Snackalicious” who are more at home reciting poetry than incinerating new species. In Gabe Hudson’s hilarious debut novel Gork, the Teenage Dragon, dragons are not mythic earth creatures but a terrifying extraterrestrial species hell-bent on conquering the universe with help of their cyborg slaves and talking spaceships. For example, Beowulf is “nothing but a pack of slanderous lie about my kind, written by a bum poet who didn’t have the gumption to sign his own name to the book.” “Not only are your reports about us dragons wildly inaccurate, they are downright insensitive and repugnant,” Gork tells the reader. Gork is a dragon, but not the kind you might be familiar with from HBO’s blockbuster TV show.
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