Riddley Walker is a brilliant, unique, completely realized work of fiction. One reads it again and again, discovering new wonders every time through. Set in a remote future in a post-nuclear holocaust England (Inland), Hoban has imagined a humanity regressed to an iron-age, semi-literate state — and invented a language to represent it.

Riddley is at once the Huck Finn and the Stephen Dedalus of his culture — rebel, change agent, and artist.

SF Masterworks #110