10 Books That Will Fry Your Mind This Summer
- By Hugh Hart
- May 27, 2011 |
- 10:00 am |
- Categories: Books and Comics
Grant Morrison has a hell of a tale to tell: The graphic novelist who co-created Batman's twisted game-changer Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth tripped on psilocybin mushrooms, fought movie execs to keep the Joker in high heels and reaped the benefits of going 50 hours without sleep in order to better access his unconscious.
It's all in his memoir Supergods, one of 10 new books included in Wired.com's summer reading roundup. These ink-on-paper slabs encompass everything from cerebral sci-fi to the nonfiction adventures of a man who sailed the Pacific in a 60-foot boat made of plastic water bottles. We've also excerpted the first sentence of George R.R. Martin's long-awaited fantasy novel, A Dance With Dragons and sweetened the pot with a Constructing Green Lantern giveaway.
Check the gallery above to preview beach-friendly tomes that might just rewire your brain cells long after the sunburns fade from view.
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Supergods
Author: Grant Morrison
Big idea: Subtitled What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human, this trippy autobiography-cum-critical essay gathers up deep thoughts and otherworldly hallucinations experienced by the comics writer who became rich and famous after co-creating the Batman best-seller Arkham Asylum.
Sample text: "I stayed up late to induce delirium.... At four thirty in the morning after fifty hours writing without sleep, I ransacked my dream diaries and most frightening childhood memories for content. In the end ... I delivered what felt like the kind of high-level comic book I knew was possible and showed that the serious superhero story didn't always have to be realistic."
Publisher: Spiegel & Grau (July)
Images courtesy participating publishers.
Hugh Hart covers movies, television and assorted pop culture oddities for Wired.com. He also writes twisted pop songs on GarageBand.Follow @hughhart and @theunderwire on Twitter.
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