Rhys Henry Hughes | |
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| Born | 1966 Cardiff, Wales |
| Occupation | Novelist, short story writer |
| Nationality | Welsh |
| Genre | Absurdism, Fantasy, OuLiPo, Science fiction |
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Rhys Henry Hughes (born 1966, Cardiff, Wales) is a Welsh fantasy writer and essayist. [1]
Born in Cardiff, Hughes has written in a variety of forms, from short stories to novels.
His long novel Engelbrecht Again! is a sequel to Maurice Richardson's 1950 cult classic The Exploits of Engelbrecht and is the most radical of Hughes's books, making extensive use of lipograms, typographical tricks, coded passages and other OuLiPo techniques. [2]
His main project consists of authoring a 1,000-story cycle of both tightly and loosely interconnected tales. [2]
In Greek mythology, the Titans were the pre-Olympian gods. According to the Theogony of Hesiod, they were the twelve children of the primordial parents Uranus (Sky) and Gaia (Earth), with six male Titans—Oceanus, Coeus, Crius, Hyperion, Iapetus, and Cronus—and six female Titans, called the Titanides or Titanesses—Theia, Rhea, Themis, Mnemosyne, Phoebe, and Tethys.
In Greek mythology, Tartarus is the deep abyss that is used as a dungeon of torment and suffering for the wicked and as the prison for the Titans. Tartarus is the place where, according to Plato's Gorgias, souls are judged after death and where the wicked received divine punishment. Tartarus appears in early Greek cosmology, such as in Hesiod's Theogony, where the personified Tartarus is described as one of the earliest beings to exist, alongside Chaos and Gaia (Earth).
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