My tastes have only broadened since then. They retain the same value for me now, although there is added to that value another one, which reflects my surprise at the tenacity of the impressions they originally made on me. Michael Cisco: I liked Tolkien, Tove Jansson, the Oz books and Alice, Watership Down, nothing too out of the ordinary. WFR.com: What kinds of fiction or stories did you read and watch growing up? And how have your tastes changed between what originally captivated you and now, if at all? Considering this, he has been more than overdue for an interview here…
In general, Cisco is a valued contributor to this site in a variety of functions: as fiction writer, translator, and, on occasion, psychic medium. As of today, we have also reprinted the last installment of our serialization of The Divinity Student, in promotion of the Cheeky Frawg release of e‑book versions of his first four novels.
His latest novel, Member, will be published by Chomu Press this month. Taken together, these books represent the greatest oeuvre of any late twentieth/early twenty-first century writer of weird fiction - all the more remarkable because of the difficulty of sustaining the visionary quality of such narratives over the novel length. Since then, Cisco has published The San Veneficio Canon, The Traitor, The Tyrant, The Narrator, The Great Lover, and most recently Celebrant. Michael Cisco (1970 – ) is an American writer best known for his first novel, The Divinity Student, which was published by Ann VanderMeer’s Buzzcity Press and won the International Horror Guild Award in 1999.
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