The Coyote Kings

Sherem is brilliant.

She's Ethiopian. She's travelled the world. She speaks a dozen
ancient and modern languages, including Fan-Girl. And she
can use--or improvise--a hundred weapons from around the
globe or of her own design.

Quite the list of accomplishments for a 25 year old.

Or is that 2500?

When best friend/roomies Hamza and Yehat, two Gen-X
brainiacs too smart for their own good, meet Sherem during
the heat of summer, they take one look at her and expect
sparks to fly.

They just don't expect them to come from the edges of
blades.

Minister Faust's first foray into astonishing adventure, pop
culture craziness and Africentric awe, The Coyote Kings,
Book One: Space-Age Bachelor Pad is already a cult classic
that had readers, critics and even Hollywood fluttering with
excitement.

WRITERS AND CRITICS HAIL THE COYOTE KINGS

BOOKLIST [starred review]: "Interwoven narratives and fascinating characters with
strong voices…make for a fantastic contemporary adventure."

NALO HOPKINSON, author of Midnight Robber: "Off the freakin hook. Funky… with
heart, style, humour, and attitude to spare."

TANANARIVE DUE, author of The Living Blood: "Incredibly imaginative and bulging with
pop culture and political references, this is a trip unlike anything you've ever read.
Endlessly entertaining."

ROBERT J. SAWYER, Hugo and Nebula Award winner: "A stylistic tour de force. The
characters are unforgettable, the slang infectious, and the whole thing is just incredibly
charming."

RICHARD MORGAN, author of Market Forces: "Outstanding, like nothing I've ever read in
the genre . . . in fact Minister Faust has pretty much invented his own genre. Full of
surprises, caring and heartfelt. I'm kind of envious of what he's done here. Really edgy
unpleasantness . . . up there with the best of them."

ERNEST DICKERSON, director, Juice, Demon Knight, Never Die Alone, The Wire:
"Minister Faust is Samuel Delaney, Harlan Ellison and Ishmael Reed all rolled into one. His
writing is biting, insightful and hugely entertaining."

COREY REDEKOP, author of Shelf Monkey: "Alive with vitality and verve, a jumping jive
of energy juice that never stops moving. I loved every moment of it."

CHARLES SAUNDERS, author of Imaro: "A few pages in, I was hooked - not only by the
quality of the prose, but also by its sheer audacity.... In the Minister's hands, Edmonton
becomes as lively and lethal as New York and Los Angeles put together.... A brilliant first
novel..... Minister Faust... is shaping up to become a one-man New Wave in the SF
genre."

THE NEW YORK TIMES: "A jumpy, hold-nothing-back style…. Faust anatomizes [the
Edmonton setting] with the same loving care Joyce brought to early-20th-century Dublin….
fresh and stylish entertainment."

KIRKUS REVIEWS and THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER: "Like Kevin Smith as if he'd grown
up in an African immigrant neighbourhood-just as comic- and pop culture-obsessed but
with a dose of righteous ethnic minority fury."

ASIMOV MAGAZINE: "Defies all expectations.… A very interesting new voice, bringing
perspectives well outside the usual assumptions of genre SF to his work. Faust is
obviously someone to watch."

THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE: "As if Faust channelled Mark Twain to write a Neal Stephenson
novel.... Explodes off the page as an intelligent, fun-filled pop-culture adventure."

THE OTTAWA CITIZEN; NATIONAL POST; CANWEST NEWS SERVICES: "The most
exciting Canadian debut in decades."

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY: "The dense writing, the ponderings on the nature of reality and a
complex plot that all comes together at the end… will remind some readers of Neal
Stephenson [and] represents a sharp-edged new voice in the genre."

SCI-FI DIMENSIONS: "If Spike Lee, Quentin Tarantino, William S. Burroughs and H.P.
Lovecraft were to collaborate on a novel, the result might be The Coyote Kings. Pick up a
copy. You'll be glad you did."