Vellum: The Book of All Hours by Hal
Duncan
Literary Mandala
An extraordinary, incendiary debut from a rare new talent, Vellum
showcases a complex and sophisticated level of writing coupled with a
fecund imagination that defies description.
VELLUM: THE BOOK OF ALL HOURS
It’s 2017 and angels and demons walk the earth. Once they were human;
now they are unkin, transformed by the ancient machine-code language of
reality itself. They seek The Book of All Hours, the mythical tome within
which the blueprint for all reality is transcribed, which has been lost

somewhere in the Vellum–the vast realm of eternity upon which our world
is a mere scratch.
The Vellum, where the unkin are gathering for war.
The Vellum, where a fallen angel and a renegade devil are about to settle
an age-old feud.
The Vellum, where the past, present, and future will collide with ancient
worlds and myths.
And the Vellum will burn. . . .
Personal Review: Vellum: The Book of All Hours by Hal Duncan
It's incredibly hard to put a label on "Vellum". It's not really fantasy, but it's
not quite SF either. Yet it is both, and so much more besides. It certainly
isn't an easy read, that's for sure. It takes time to get into Duncan's world
(and it doesn't help that this world constantly shift into a hundred other
worlds, similar yet vastly different) and once there, you're lost in a maze of
archetypes, literary references with a twist and a jigsaw of little stories that
start to make sense only after you realize that they don't. Not alone.
Because "Velum"'s plot, such as it is, is not linear. It's cubic-shaped. It's
three-dimensional. Each story has its place, each "close but not quite the
same" character - his role. And when the whole is put together, you realize
that there might not be a linear story, but there's a sense of a story, the
foundations and columns of a plot so vast, that a single set of characters in
a single world just couldn't handle it.
There are themes that run through the entire book right down to its core.
They penetrate all worlds, all relationships, they shape and connect all the
archetypes in one cohesive whole.
"Vellum" isn't an easy book to read, but it's rewarding. It respects the effort
you put into reading it. And it's the kind of work which - love it or hate it -
marks a true genius.
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