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Imagine a writer who combines the stylistic complexities of Gene Wolfe with the sexual perversity of Poppy Z. Brite. Add a dash of cyberpunk and a double measure of the paranoia that fueled Philip K. Dick's best work. This might give you some dark presentiment of what Calder's fiction is like, but your imagination would probably fall well short of the mark. In his newest novel (after Dead Things), Calder imagines a future when virtual reality and the Net have created an alternate universe of artificial intelligences, many of whom have been downloaded into corporeal form. Much of the world's population, both human and virtual, has become obsessed with pornography and sado-masochism, and Earth's repressive governments have concluded that children are at the demonic center of the sexual madness that has overtaken the planet. As the novel opens, one downloaded AI, Dahlia Chan, former star of such pornographic and pedophiliac adventure films as Kung-Fu Nymphet from Hell, and Zane, her most obsessive (and sexually obsessed) fan, flee across the wastes of Antarctica in search of Cythera, a perhaps mythical Eden where humans and AIs can live as equals. In succeeding chapters, a variety of characters, many of them alternate-universe versions of Dahlia and Zane, most of them sexually perverse, undergo a variety of adventures, assignations, revolutions and tortures, all part of their grand and extremely convoluted quest for Cythera. Calder is a writer of undeniable talent, but it's hard to envision his intended audience. Perhaps he's writing for aficionados of both the Marquis de Sade and William Gibson or, conceivably, for those who prefer their Philip K. Dick mixed with a little J.K. Huymans. In any case, he's definitely an acquired taste.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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"Fascinating and superbly written." --"Starlog"
"One of the stranger SF series of recent years...Calder's mix of violent and graphically sexual images and dizzily recursive explications of SF tropes blended through a reality mixer is unsettling, genuinely exotic, and fiercely intelligent. Highly recommended. --Paul J. McAuley, Interzone
"A literary head kickc, pushing gender and bio-tech buttons as hard as something like Neuromancer pushed the romance of digital criminality." --Richard Kadrey, author of "Kamikaze L'Amour"
"A future world as rich, dense, and intricate as any in recent SF."--Rob Latham, " The New York Review of Science Fiction"
"The trilogy holds many rewards, cerebral and aesthetic." --"Publishers Weekly"
"Stunning...a wild trilogy" --"Science Fiction Age"
"One of the stranger SF series of recent years...Calder's mix of violent and graphically sexual images and dizzily recursive explications of SF tropes blended through a reality mixer is unsettling, genuinely exotic, and fiercely intelligent. Highly recommended. --Paul J. McAuley, Interzone
"A literary head kickc, pushing gender and bio-tech buttons as hard as something like Neuromancer pushed the romance of digital criminality." --Richard Kadrey, author of "Kamikaze L'Amour"
"A future world as rich, dense, and intricate as any in recent SF."--Rob Latham, " The New York Review of Science Fiction"
"The trilogy holds many rewards, cerebral and aesthetic." --"Publishers Weekly"
"Stunning...a wild trilogy" --"Science Fiction Age"
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On the eroto-vampirism of Calder's Dead Trilogy,
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Rezension bezieht sich auf: Dead Girls, Dead Boys, Dead Things (Taschenbuch)
Gore Vidal said famously that long passages of *Gravity's Rainbow* require more effort to read than it apparently took Pynchon to compose - that verbal imagination had far overreached the restraining subtleties of craft and artifice, producing a congested, overwritten narrative whose exuberance is (simultaneously) its opacity. While Richard Calder's difficult tale does not always maintain the necessary balance between over-the-top yahoo invention and tight controlled craftsmanship (the elusive crux of postmodern artistry), his bold attempts to square the narrative circle (especially against the backdrop of mass-market SF) is often fascinating to watch, with important narratological lessons embedded therein. Ignatz's trespassing love for the wrathweary female assassin Primavera, coeval with the technocratic steppes of a Eurasian cyberiad, is told with genuine passion, yet throughout the reader can't escape the feeling that s/he's entered the realm of literary comic books, an introverted David Lynch fantasy-land where Calder is free to play out his fetishistic narrative constructs. I recommend the Dead Trilogy to younger writers as a moratorium against the Oxygen Debt of linguistic overindulgence, in contrast to the more tempered workmanship of, say, a Jack Womack, or a Neal Stephenson. As Vidal put it, "Energy and intelligence are not in balance, and the writer fails in his ambition to be a god of creation.... This is entropy with a vengeance."
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William Faulkner meets William Gibson. Genius!,
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Rezension bezieht sich auf: Dead Girls, Dead Boys, Dead Things (Taschenbuch)
Beautifully written poetic epic about true love in a world gone utterly mad. The narrative style reminded me of William Faulkner's "Sound and the Fury" while the plot is a crazy mix of classic cyberpunk and Anne Rice style sexy vampire lore. This book has everything -- from raw sex filled with Freudian imagery to unadulterated tales of conspiracy and murder. But when push comes to shove, it is a beautiful tale of true love. True love in a STRANGE, STRANGE world.
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Moorcock meets Gibson in a Gender War,
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This trilogy is without a doubt the finest piece of writing I have read this year. This series is not for all but if you like Jeff Noon or Michael Moorcock you must pick up this book. Calder's way with words and his style draw you deep into this nightmare world which is a reflection of our own. Calder's points about life in the information age and the war of the sexes are rapier sharp and dead on. A beautiful and dark collection that engages the reader from beginning to end. A must read!
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