A.K. Otterness: Tales from Inside the Boerarrium, Science Fiction Vol. I (Science Fiction Virtual Worlds)
Clearly a New Weird bias. Similar writing to Jonathan Lethem, kinda stoney, memory and feelings and sci-fi stuff, artistic. But a few shorts in this book are demented and hilarious. Ok, like Plantaddict. Or The Klotho Trigger. Like old Amazing Science Fiction pulp magazine writing. A couple hard-sf stories, mostly republished from early 1990s magazines Otterness wrote for. Like Rudy Rucker in the sense of pulp writing, but more Philip K. Dick-ian characters, not really new weird at all but kinda. Cant talk about em without giving away much cause theyre short stories. PlantAddict was probably my favorite. The soft apocalypse arrives from the plant kingdom? Ill take a dime bag. Havent been able to find out about Volume II, this is supposedly Volume I. Crazy scholar-type intro by A.J. Specktowsky about the current debate over technocracy in science fiction in which "Early 20th Century Socialist Nudist Cult Utopias" are somehow tied into science fictions origins. Recursive sculptural plot machinations. Five Sirius Cybernetics Corporation gold stars.
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From the Publisher...
Tales from Inside The Boerarrium collects for the first time, in two volumes, the strange and disparate worlds of A.K. Otterness. In a Universe where alternate realities exist in mad profusion, and mankind has spread his terms of engagement beyond the boundaries of the known and virtual worlds are physical, Otterness has tracked down these pixelated stories of future inhabitants and transcribed them backward in time to the disturbingly technocratic present. Volume I includes a new foreward by Aegon Specktowsky and 10 riveting short stories by Otterness, including: Plantaddict, The Blue, Integrand, FogFascists, Boerarrium, EggCreetor, and The Klotho Trigger. Vol. IX in the Machine-Humanist Library.
"Awesome... puts the pure Pulp back in Pulp Science Fiction!"
- Robert A. Stirling
"A hypercube of Ruckerian, Strugatsky-ite dimensions."
- Jim Widderly, Eldritchs Sci-Fi Review
"I had to regress my age to sixteen years old, reading Ray Bradburys The Martian Chronicles late at night. Then I blinked out of existence."
- Kiro Shenzhen, Manga-T Books
- Sirius Cybernetics Corp [Feb 4 2007 03:06 AM]
