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A 215,000 word sci-fi megalith that is probably too long for anyone to commit to, but here it is, fully edited and thematically airtight.
Blurb:
Near future Baudrillardian void scape in the costume of a trash sci-fi serial about a Japanese student getting a brain swap and ending up in the gravity well of a fatigued alien puppet master who may or may not be a villain might even be something beyond it.
Big focus on concept of hauntological drift, especially in the non-action scenes.
Big struggle with consistency in terms of staying in the mind of a 22 year old MC with two sets of memories in his head, in a novel that was written on and off for nearly 15 years.
Big influence direct and other from Deleuze and Baudrillard and Kristeva and a dozen more I can’t think of right now, specifically the books of theirs that are available in my local library [Passwords, Fatal Strategies, Anti-Oedipus, The Fold, Cinema I and II, Powers of Horror etc.] Also, Leval and his book on Spanish Collectives during the Revolution, with Dolgoff’s text as a supplement/counterpoint. The novel is not a philosophical text, obviously, but all of the above were filtered in to some extent, mostly during the last four hundred pages.
All chapters are already available in serial form on this site, but this is the director’s cut without a lot of the typos so try this one.
Cover done by me in a trance state.
To start reading, click on the cover below:
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