One Hundred Years of Vicissitude
THE FLAWED MIND
"Dreamlike and bewitchingly evocative."
FORCES OF GEEK
"A unique, memorable story—indescribable, exhilarating."
ELIZABETH A. WHITE REVIEWS
"A wildly enchanting journey down the rabbit hole."
DRYING INK
"Quirky, poignant, and utterly brilliant."
FANTASY BOOK REVIEW
"Charles Dickens collides with Haruki Murakami in a pulsating tale of history, redemption and revenge."
BRITISH FANTASY SOCIETY
"A cracking great story."
ZOUCH MAGAZINE
"Hard-boiled and entertaining."
FARRAGO MAGAZINE
"One Hundred Years of Vicissitude reaffirms a postmodern dexterity of Cirque de Soleil proportions."
STEAMPUNK MAGAZINE
"Breathtakingly detailed... I defy you to read this book."
BARE*BONES
"A terrific book!"
CHRIS RHATIGAN (PULP INK)
"What a delightful and unusual read."
IMPACT MAGAZINE
"Fascinating, mind-bending... this is superb stuff from Bergen."
MCDROLL
"Exquisite... incredibly touching and
devastating in its beauty."
ALWAYSUNMENDED
"A wonderful tale... This is what
good literary fiction reads like."
NERDY BOOK REVIEWS
"A fantastic addition to the fiction genre,
like nothing I have ever read before."
READING, WRITING & NO ARITHMETIC
"A cracking good read... I was bereft when I finished it."
INSOMNIA PRESS
"Crime, geisha, time travel; masterfully balances these things and turns its nose up at pretentious literature."
PHIL JOURDAN
"I love this. The narrator is fascinating—as are his two unlikely companions."
LES EDGERTON
"Just started Andrez Bergen’s novel and already I can’t put it down!"
JOHN HUNT
"Talented, stunning."
"Dreamlike and bewitchingly evocative."
FORCES OF GEEK
"A unique, memorable story—indescribable, exhilarating."
ELIZABETH A. WHITE REVIEWS
"A wildly enchanting journey down the rabbit hole."
DRYING INK
"Quirky, poignant, and utterly brilliant."
FANTASY BOOK REVIEW
"Charles Dickens collides with Haruki Murakami in a pulsating tale of history, redemption and revenge."
BRITISH FANTASY SOCIETY
"A cracking great story."
ZOUCH MAGAZINE
"Hard-boiled and entertaining."
FARRAGO MAGAZINE
"One Hundred Years of Vicissitude reaffirms a postmodern dexterity of Cirque de Soleil proportions."
STEAMPUNK MAGAZINE
"Breathtakingly detailed... I defy you to read this book."
BARE*BONES
"A terrific book!"
CHRIS RHATIGAN (PULP INK)
"What a delightful and unusual read."
IMPACT MAGAZINE
"Fascinating, mind-bending... this is superb stuff from Bergen."
MCDROLL
"Exquisite... incredibly touching and
devastating in its beauty."
ALWAYSUNMENDED
"A wonderful tale... This is what
good literary fiction reads like."
NERDY BOOK REVIEWS
"A fantastic addition to the fiction genre,
like nothing I have ever read before."
READING, WRITING & NO ARITHMETIC
"A cracking good read... I was bereft when I finished it."
INSOMNIA PRESS
"Crime, geisha, time travel; masterfully balances these things and turns its nose up at pretentious literature."
PHIL JOURDAN
"I love this. The narrator is fascinating—as are his two unlikely companions."
LES EDGERTON
"Just started Andrez Bergen’s novel and already I can’t put it down!"
JOHN HUNT
"Talented, stunning."
Tobacco-Stained Mountain Goat
THE THOUSANDS MAGAZINE
"Andrez Bergen put science fiction, noir, Australia and Japan into a literary hadron collider and Tobacco-Stained Mountain Goat came out."
SF BOOK REVIEWS
"Tobacco Stained Mountain Goat is an incredible novel, completely unexpected and with such a wonderfully rich and unique style that is simply mesmerizing, unmissable."
LIP MAGAZINE
"Such an engrossing and visual read—gorgeous, subtle moments in there as well."
ELIZABETH A. WHITE
"I can say without qualification that not only is Tobacco-Stained Mountain Goat one of my Top 5 reads of 2011, it is one of the most creative and engaging books I’ve ever read. Period... my mind is completely blown."
DARK WOLF'S FANTASY REVIEWS
"Original and unforgettable."
JOSH STALLINGS (AUTHOR)
"A wonderful ambush of a novel. It leads you down a well-tread path and then jumps from the brush and drags you to uncharted lands. It has been a while since I had this childlike joy at turning the page. It's an insane, hard-boiled future shocker. Wow."
ZOUCH MAGAZINE
"In a modern age of conspiracies and corporate agglomerates, I think Raymond Chandler would be pleased as to where Bergen has taken his legacy."
IMPACT MAGAZINE (UK)
“A jam-packed roller coaster that’s as affecting as it is exciting and gripping.”
SOLARCIDE
"It's a cigar-puffing, whiskey-sipping, piano playing bar lout, and the book will stir up a whole bunch of memories of black-and-white imagery."
CRIME FICTION LOVER
"In the world Andrez Bergen has created, Melbourne is the only city left and after the apocalypse it’s protected by a giant dome. Yes, this is noir meets science fiction as our main character Floyd Maquina presents the story in Chandleresque fashion."
BEAT MAGAZINE
"Innovative, quirky, at times hilarious... this is as challenging as it is a roller coaster ride."
GUY SALVIDGE (AUTHOR)
"A post-modern melange that is the most intriguing of novels... Tobacco-Stained Mountain Goat is a novel that manages to be hardboiled
and playful at the same time."
VERBICIDE MAGAZINE
"At the heart of Bergen’s novel is the love affair our author has with popular culture. This book is bursting with nods and homages to everything from Humphrey Bogart to Mobile Suit Gundam."
THE FLAWED MIND
"Andrez wears his pop-culture influences on his sleeve, and the result is a compote that mashes up a plethora of fictional frameworks into a believable, seamless whole. Floyd Maquina... is ruggedly handsome and generally ruined; witty, self destructive and self-effacing with his air of gracious defeat."
DRYING INK
"Floyd Maquina was a refreshing protagonist, I liked the noir influences, and... the ending tied it together fantastically."
HEATH LOWRANCE (AUTHOR)
"TSMG is one of the freshest, most original things I've read in a while. Terrific stuff. One of my favourite books of 2011."
CHAD ROHRBACHER (AUTHOR)
"Tobacco-Stained Mountain Goat is like dropping acid with William Gibson and Hunter S. Thompson."
THE BRITISH FANTASY SOCIETY
"Witty and literate, the book skips along at a lively pace and then makes a mad dash for the finishing line... it is the ride rather than the finishing line that makes this a fun read."
BARE*BONES E-ZINE
"The prose is solidly tough-guy style, more noir than sci-fi, with technical terms kept to a minimum... This novel has enough twists and turns to keep a Raymond Chandler fan happy."
PATRICIA MAUNDER @ THE AGE / ABC RADIO
“A Third Man/Matrix/Blade Runner/Dashiell Hammett melange that is engrossing, intriguing and surprising!”
DOC O'DONNELL (AUTHOR/BLOGGER)
"Like a dystopian film noir and totally badass."
BETHANY SMALL @ INPRESS MAGAZINE
"Things get fairly meta what with the characters talking about how they’re acting out/being cast as certain types throughout the book... a great take on the laconic narration/voiceover you get in a lot of noir."
VICE MAGAZINE
“Flows effortlessly; smart, mesmerizingly dark and difficult to put down.”
INVURT
"We do like our unusual fare, and this one is really up there... Some of you may have heard of a new book that’s been making waves through the webosphere lately – Tobacco Stained Mountain Goat. Weird name, cool premise – and as sci-fi and noir fans, we’re pretty excited about it."
THE KINDLE BOOK REVIEW
"What's scary, though, is that aside from just a little bit of futuristic cosmetic surgery and a few other things, you could look around at the current global climate and see this mess be a real possibility."
FARRAGO MAGAZINE
"Tobacco Stained Mountain Goat is a great read; a well-rounded book from a well-rounded individual."
RMIT CATALYST MAGAZINE
"Quirky, fresh, riddled with references to noir classics, but written with a self-deprecation that douses any cries of pretension and a black humour that sees you in wry smirks when reading."
SONS OF SPADE
“Quite the offbeat P.I. novel.”
ALLTHOSESHAPES.COM
"Nice work, Andrez—so creative."
GAIJINPOT.COM
“Fresh, unusually intelligent, with canny, rapid-fire dialogue.”
THE FUTURE FIRE
"Does a fabulous job of highlighting the complexities and dangers of current world social, economic and political climates."
GEEK GIRLS
"An original, dark work of dystopian fiction that I’ve had a hard time putting down."
SCIFICTION.COM
"Really cool new sci-fi/noir."
ME, MY SHELF & I
"Bergen is a word-smith, there is no doubt about that. His writing style kept me interested and entertained to no end."
FORCES OF GEEK
“Tobacco-Stained Mountain Goat is a love letter to the detective genre densely packed with obscure pop culture references that had me grinning.”
FILMINK MAGAZINE
“Original and intriguing.”
JENNIFER WU, BOOK THINGO
"Thank you for writing such a great pastiche/homage/love letter."
M L SAWYER (AUTHOR)
The most unique story I have read for some time... well done for being different."
DARK ROASTED BLEND
“Some mischievous dark candy, with gritty/nutty/licorice tones.”
PAUL JACKSON (JOURNALIST)
"Enjoyed feasting on the goat. Started to think I was taking a test myself... Certainly enjoyed the blurring of one reality and another. You had the momentum flowing for another 50 pages at least!"
COLIN HARVEY (AUTHOR)
"Floyd Maquina has a distinctive voice, and a likeable character, and I’m a sucker for both... Andrez Bergen’s debut novel is a book drenched in film imagery."
READ IN A SINGLE SITTING
"Just up my alley. Award for (arguably) best title ever goes to Tobacco-Stained Mountain Goat."
TIM COLMAN (JOURNALIST)
"Just finished your novel and I loved it. Great read with some punchy dialogue - reminds me of chatting over drinks with you. It's good to know the hard boiled detective lives on too."
J.F. JENKINS (AUTHOR)
"I gotta say it's an awesome indie book read."
DANGEROUS ROMANCE.COM
"Intriguing and just quirky enough."
OLLIE OLSEN (MUSICIAN)
"Lovin' what I read so far."
GORDON HIGHLAND (AUTHOR/DIRECTOR)
"Blade Runner meets The Third Man is an apt description."
BOOKS & THINGS
"Welcome to the claustrophobic, bleak Melbourne of the future... I can’t remember when my cinema knowledge was so tested in a book."
ALAN HERRICK (MUSICIAN/AURICULAR RECORDS)
"Started reading TSMG finally - was tempted to call in sick to work and finish it in one sitting - love it!"
"Andrez Bergen put science fiction, noir, Australia and Japan into a literary hadron collider and Tobacco-Stained Mountain Goat came out."
SF BOOK REVIEWS
"Tobacco Stained Mountain Goat is an incredible novel, completely unexpected and with such a wonderfully rich and unique style that is simply mesmerizing, unmissable."
LIP MAGAZINE
"Such an engrossing and visual read—gorgeous, subtle moments in there as well."
ELIZABETH A. WHITE
"I can say without qualification that not only is Tobacco-Stained Mountain Goat one of my Top 5 reads of 2011, it is one of the most creative and engaging books I’ve ever read. Period... my mind is completely blown."
DARK WOLF'S FANTASY REVIEWS
"Original and unforgettable."
JOSH STALLINGS (AUTHOR)
"A wonderful ambush of a novel. It leads you down a well-tread path and then jumps from the brush and drags you to uncharted lands. It has been a while since I had this childlike joy at turning the page. It's an insane, hard-boiled future shocker. Wow."
ZOUCH MAGAZINE
"In a modern age of conspiracies and corporate agglomerates, I think Raymond Chandler would be pleased as to where Bergen has taken his legacy."
IMPACT MAGAZINE (UK)
“A jam-packed roller coaster that’s as affecting as it is exciting and gripping.”
SOLARCIDE
"It's a cigar-puffing, whiskey-sipping, piano playing bar lout, and the book will stir up a whole bunch of memories of black-and-white imagery."
CRIME FICTION LOVER
"In the world Andrez Bergen has created, Melbourne is the only city left and after the apocalypse it’s protected by a giant dome. Yes, this is noir meets science fiction as our main character Floyd Maquina presents the story in Chandleresque fashion."
BEAT MAGAZINE
"Innovative, quirky, at times hilarious... this is as challenging as it is a roller coaster ride."
GUY SALVIDGE (AUTHOR)
"A post-modern melange that is the most intriguing of novels... Tobacco-Stained Mountain Goat is a novel that manages to be hardboiled
and playful at the same time."
VERBICIDE MAGAZINE
"At the heart of Bergen’s novel is the love affair our author has with popular culture. This book is bursting with nods and homages to everything from Humphrey Bogart to Mobile Suit Gundam."
THE FLAWED MIND
"Andrez wears his pop-culture influences on his sleeve, and the result is a compote that mashes up a plethora of fictional frameworks into a believable, seamless whole. Floyd Maquina... is ruggedly handsome and generally ruined; witty, self destructive and self-effacing with his air of gracious defeat."
DRYING INK
"Floyd Maquina was a refreshing protagonist, I liked the noir influences, and... the ending tied it together fantastically."
HEATH LOWRANCE (AUTHOR)
"TSMG is one of the freshest, most original things I've read in a while. Terrific stuff. One of my favourite books of 2011."
CHAD ROHRBACHER (AUTHOR)
"Tobacco-Stained Mountain Goat is like dropping acid with William Gibson and Hunter S. Thompson."
THE BRITISH FANTASY SOCIETY
"Witty and literate, the book skips along at a lively pace and then makes a mad dash for the finishing line... it is the ride rather than the finishing line that makes this a fun read."
BARE*BONES E-ZINE
"The prose is solidly tough-guy style, more noir than sci-fi, with technical terms kept to a minimum... This novel has enough twists and turns to keep a Raymond Chandler fan happy."
PATRICIA MAUNDER @ THE AGE / ABC RADIO
“A Third Man/Matrix/Blade Runner/Dashiell Hammett melange that is engrossing, intriguing and surprising!”
DOC O'DONNELL (AUTHOR/BLOGGER)
"Like a dystopian film noir and totally badass."
BETHANY SMALL @ INPRESS MAGAZINE
"Things get fairly meta what with the characters talking about how they’re acting out/being cast as certain types throughout the book... a great take on the laconic narration/voiceover you get in a lot of noir."
VICE MAGAZINE
“Flows effortlessly; smart, mesmerizingly dark and difficult to put down.”
INVURT
"We do like our unusual fare, and this one is really up there... Some of you may have heard of a new book that’s been making waves through the webosphere lately – Tobacco Stained Mountain Goat. Weird name, cool premise – and as sci-fi and noir fans, we’re pretty excited about it."
THE KINDLE BOOK REVIEW
"What's scary, though, is that aside from just a little bit of futuristic cosmetic surgery and a few other things, you could look around at the current global climate and see this mess be a real possibility."
FARRAGO MAGAZINE
"Tobacco Stained Mountain Goat is a great read; a well-rounded book from a well-rounded individual."
RMIT CATALYST MAGAZINE
"Quirky, fresh, riddled with references to noir classics, but written with a self-deprecation that douses any cries of pretension and a black humour that sees you in wry smirks when reading."
SONS OF SPADE
“Quite the offbeat P.I. novel.”
ALLTHOSESHAPES.COM
"Nice work, Andrez—so creative."
GAIJINPOT.COM
“Fresh, unusually intelligent, with canny, rapid-fire dialogue.”
THE FUTURE FIRE
"Does a fabulous job of highlighting the complexities and dangers of current world social, economic and political climates."
GEEK GIRLS
"An original, dark work of dystopian fiction that I’ve had a hard time putting down."
SCIFICTION.COM
"Really cool new sci-fi/noir."
ME, MY SHELF & I
"Bergen is a word-smith, there is no doubt about that. His writing style kept me interested and entertained to no end."
FORCES OF GEEK
“Tobacco-Stained Mountain Goat is a love letter to the detective genre densely packed with obscure pop culture references that had me grinning.”
FILMINK MAGAZINE
“Original and intriguing.”
JENNIFER WU, BOOK THINGO
"Thank you for writing such a great pastiche/homage/love letter."
M L SAWYER (AUTHOR)
The most unique story I have read for some time... well done for being different."
DARK ROASTED BLEND
“Some mischievous dark candy, with gritty/nutty/licorice tones.”
PAUL JACKSON (JOURNALIST)
"Enjoyed feasting on the goat. Started to think I was taking a test myself... Certainly enjoyed the blurring of one reality and another. You had the momentum flowing for another 50 pages at least!"
COLIN HARVEY (AUTHOR)
"Floyd Maquina has a distinctive voice, and a likeable character, and I’m a sucker for both... Andrez Bergen’s debut novel is a book drenched in film imagery."
READ IN A SINGLE SITTING
"Just up my alley. Award for (arguably) best title ever goes to Tobacco-Stained Mountain Goat."
TIM COLMAN (JOURNALIST)
"Just finished your novel and I loved it. Great read with some punchy dialogue - reminds me of chatting over drinks with you. It's good to know the hard boiled detective lives on too."
J.F. JENKINS (AUTHOR)
"I gotta say it's an awesome indie book read."
DANGEROUS ROMANCE.COM
"Intriguing and just quirky enough."
OLLIE OLSEN (MUSICIAN)
"Lovin' what I read so far."
GORDON HIGHLAND (AUTHOR/DIRECTOR)
"Blade Runner meets The Third Man is an apt description."
BOOKS & THINGS
"Welcome to the claustrophobic, bleak Melbourne of the future... I can’t remember when my cinema knowledge was so tested in a book."
ALAN HERRICK (MUSICIAN/AURICULAR RECORDS)
"Started reading TSMG finally - was tempted to call in sick to work and finish it in one sitting - love it!"