The Medusa Frequency by RUssel Hoban

The Medusa Frequency by Russell Hoban
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Clearly the inspiration for China Miéville’s cephalopodic leviathan, the goulash being garnished with the Greek myth of Orpheus and Euridyce.

After his death, the Muses collected the fragments of Orpheus’s body, and buried them at Leibethra at the foot of Olympus, where the nightingale sang sweetly over his grave. The subsequent transference of his bones to Dium is evidently a local legend. His head was thrown upon the Hebrus, down which it rolled to the sea, and was borne across to Lesbos, where the grave in which it was interred was shown at Antissa.

Added to this hallucinogenic novel are names like - Nnvsnu the Tsrungh, the great Snyukh, the Blug of Nexo Vollma, Nabilca (the thing of darkness).

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