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In a decaying and violent near-future New York, the remnants of civic order are maintained with brute force by the conglomerate Dryco. But even Dryco is falling apart from the inside. Seamus O'Malley is bodyguard and confidant to Mister Dryden, the CEO, and an admirer of Dryden's personal femme fatale, Avalon. But what begins as a simple case of unrequited love quickly becomes a desperate chance for survival as corporate intrigue, murderous family rivalries, and perverse subcultures take over O'Malley's life.
Drawing comparisons to the nightmarish vision of J. G. Ballard and the linguistic brilliance of Anthony Burgess's
,
marked the "wonderfully inventive" debut of Philip K. Dick Award–winning author Jack Womack (
).
"Bleakly comic . . . A cynical tour de force through the meanest of streets.
is less prophecy than documentary, demonstrating how the best science fiction is about as future-oriented as today's
." —
"[Womack] succeeds in balancing blistering social commentary with shrewd literary experimentation . . . Flecked with black humor, this is speculative fiction at its eerie best." —
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About Jack Womack
Jack Womack is the author of
,
,
,
,
,
, and
. Womack's short stories, have appeared in anthologies edited by Kathryn Cramer (
, "Out of Sight, Out of Mind"), Ellen Datlow (
"Lifeblood")
, and
"That Old School Tie,"), and Don Keller, Ellen Kushner, Delia Sherman (
"Audience"); as well as in
("A Kiss, a Wink, a Grassy Knoll."). He has published articles or reviews in
, the
,
,
,
,
, and
(Munich), and was a contributor to
. He is a cowinner of the Philip K. Dick Award, and has taught writing at the Clarion West workshop, in Seattle. He lives in New York City.
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