"On every page there is something funny, sad, weird, or some combination thereof, conjured by Friedman's deadpan tone, pile-up of cliche and detail, and the placement of quotidian characters into absurd situations (or vice versa)." -- The L Magazine "Friedman's urbane silliness and élan hark back to the glittering twilight of high camp--without seeming to hark back. Hats off to Little A for reissuing Martian Dawn and Other Novels . I didn't know anyone could still make it look so easy to have so much fun on the page." --Lorin Stein, editor-in-chief of The Paris Review "Michael Friedman has one of the best sensibilities in contemporary lit. Martian Dawn possesses the impeccable construction, low gravity, and shimmering surface of something written with a magic wand." --Dennis Cooper "Michael Friedman's novels are analytical, fun to read, and profoundly nourishing. He takes fiction seriously by not taking it seriously.

" --Wayne Koestenbaum "Reading Martian Dawn is like watching an ultra-cool comedy of the future where familiar movie types develop into idyllic interplanetary characters in order to make yet more movies. It's as though Star Trek , Pretty Woman , and There's Something About Mary had been sublimated in an unlikely fusion that is both comforting and hilarious." --Harry Mathews "Michael Friedman's metrosexuals are direct descendants of characters in Ronald Firbank and Ivy Compton-Burnett. Their wisecracking rises consistently to the level of poetry." --John Ashbery.