Venusia
A True Story
$36.19
- Paperback
248 pages
- Release Date
5 August 2005
Summary
A novel about life under enlightened totalitarianism in the twenty-third century and the efforts of a mild-mannered junk dealer to change the human condition.Primitive literacy is redundant. Mere words are expelled. We inaugurate a world of pure presence. The mind, that intrudes itself between ourselves and those memories too terrible to know, must keep us moving beyond the grasp of their claw. To control the flow, it will be necessary that political order be imposed always temporarily. The s…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781584350262 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1584350261 |
| Author: | Mark Von Schlegell |
| Publisher: | Autonomedia |
| Imprint: | Semiotext |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 248 |
| Release Date: | 5 August 2005 |
| Weight: | 408g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 19mm |
| Series: | Semiotext(e) / Native Agents |
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Critics Review
– Norman M. Klein, author of “The Vatican to Vegas: The History of Special Effects”
A heady, kaleidoscopic trip into a dystopic future as well as a backward look at the necessities ofthe past.
—Jackie Cassada, Library Journala mind-bending excursion through the plastic neuroscapes of quantum reality.
—Cheryl Morgan, Emerald CityA psychedelic sampling of high and low literature that reads like the best of the genre…. like a head-on collision between a David Lynch film and a Philip K. Dick novel in the 23rd century.
—Mike Errico, MaximAbout The Author
Mark Von Schlegell
Mark von Schlegell’s stories and essays appear regularly in underground newspapers, zines, art books, and amateurist periodicals the world over. Venusia, his first novel, was honor-listed for the 2007 James M. Tiptree Jr. Prize in science fiction.
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