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Hadean: Fiction — Paul McQuade | Numéro Cinq
Paul McQuade’s story begins in the epic mode — “It all began with magma. The Earth was young and molten…” — and spins a tale that is legendary and fantastic, pinned against a backdrop of alchemy and Death, a tale that knowingly situates itself somewhere between Genesis and Italo Calvino’s Cosmicomics. He will write sentences like "The mammalian clades survived through some fluke of furred instinct" which mesmerizes with its use of that strange word "clades" and the alliteration. When he writes, McQuade follows the words, tone and sound. Lovely to read. Paul McQuade is a young Scottish writer living in Japan, a newcomer to Numéro Cinq.