title: Sheer Filth!: Bizarre Cinema, Weird Literature, Strange Music, Extreme Art
author: David Flint
description: "Draws the reader into a kind of hermetically sealed world of sleaze... presents a whole somehow more than equal to the sum of its parts. -- Stefan Jaworzyn, Shock Xpress
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  Praise for Shadows of the Apt
  
  
  
  
  
  ‘Occasionally a fantasy author comes up with a way to break the mould of
  traditional genre tropes: M. John Harrison’s _Viriconium_ and China Mieville’s
  _Perdido Street Station_ are two examples that immediately spring to mind.
  Tchaikovsky, on this evidence, looks like a new addition to that select hall
  of fame . . . This looks like a series with legs: six of them’
  
  
  
  
  
  _Death Ray_
  
  
  
  
  
  ‘The insectile-humans premise is inventive, shaping the world in all sorts of
  ways’
  
  
  
  
  
  _SFX_
  
  
  
  
  
  _‘Empire’s_ most singular distinction in the genre is its employment of a
  totally different selection of fantastical insect/human hybrids . . . This
  allows the author to achieve the unusual feat of creating a new universe
  populated by unique characters’
  
  
  
  
  
  _Sci