Unfiction

By: Gene Doucette

Narrated by: Brad Wills

When Oliver Naughton joins the Tenth Avenue Writers Underground, headed by literary wunderkind Wilson Knight, Oliver figures he'll finally get some of his wild imaginings out of his head and onto paper.

But when Wilson takes an intense interest in Oliver's writing and his genre stories of dragons, aliens, and spies, things get weird. Oliver's stories don't just need to be finished: they insist on it.

With the help of Minerva, Wilson's girlfriend, Oliver has to find the connection between reality, fiction, the mythical Cydonian Kingdom, and the non-mythical nightclub called M Pallas. That is, if he can survive the alien invasion, the ghosts, and the fact that he thinks he might be in love with Minerva.

Unfiction is a wild ride through the collision of science fiction, fantasy, thriller, horror, and romance. It's what happens when one writer's fiction interferes with everyone's reality.

Unfiction is the latest novel from Gene Doucette, the best-selling author of The Spaceship Next Door.

©2017 Gene Doucette (P)2017 Gene Doucette

Fantastic, Creative, Fun - and well narrated

I love all of Gene Doucette’s books, but I have to say this one was wildly different. Fever dreams of any writer, writ large across multiple genres. Without spoilers, it was full of eye-rolling humor, self deprecation, thrills, drama, and let’s face it: the kitchen sink.

This is a unique and standalone book, which should be enjoyable to anyone - particularly any wannabe authors.

UNREALITY IN THE TWILIGHT ZONE

Rod Serling (The Twilight Zone) would be proud of the masterful story telling and performance of this unique and highly entertaining book that drags the characters and the reader through myriad clichés and tropes of sci-fi, fantasy, adventure, writer geeks, intrigue, chicanery and mixed mayhem and mystery mingled with flying alien bugs, dragons, magicians, sexual innuendo....all captivatingly managed with lighthearted, self-abasing humor, and hardly ANY run-on sentences!

Highly recommended!!!!

Great twist!

I enjoy this writer but the narrator really made this book completely enjoyable! I recommend this one.

The Writers Guild takes a trip to Wonderland

I had a bit of trouble getting into this story for the first couple chapters but I'm very fond of the author so I pushed through. I'm very glad I did this is probably one of the most creative weaving of stories that I've read in a long time! one of those books that you like more and more as you listen and are sad when it ends

Caution, Genre Boundaries Not Respected

Normally authors pick a genre and attempt to subvert its conventional cliches thereby creating an interesting and entertaining story. Doucette, clearly bored with this mundane approach, decided to fill a basket with all the cliches of several genres, shake it up and subvert the whole of it as characters move from one genre to another at times chaotically. It works more often than not, but if you need orderly stories that stay within conventional boundaries this book may give severe and debilitating indigestion.