Eckonesbit: The Solid Confessor: Science Fiction Classics (Cult Dystopia)
Ab.So.Lute.Ly. Demented. This book has awesome art and is crazy. If you open it like the I-Ching, and start reading anywhere, it says something demented. The back-copy marketing-goo says its like textual arcology, and yes. It is. As far as I have been able to figure out, its kind of like reading that early Russell Hoban book, Riddley Walker but with all the crazyness of William Burroughs, theory of the Strugatsky Brothers, science fiction Witkiewicz and Franz Kafkas The Castle plus I dont know, Marshall McLuhan, old sci-fi pulp magazine writing from Astounding Magazine... its like reading an economic textbook noir thriller biology textbook on panspermia with thomas pynchon on virtual philip k. dick drugs. I admit I havent finished it yet. Its too demented. Ive been lugging it around like the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy for reference whenever I encounter the world of the Straights. I give it Three Full Stigmata fresh from Palmer Eldritch.
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From the Publisher...
The anonymous cult classic of the early machine age "The Solid Confessor" has intrigued readers for over a decade: its literary dementia is akin to the best of 1960s Russian Science Fiction set within a gritty, distinctly American Beat literature perspective. Often compared to everything from Economic Genre fiction to Textual Arcology, "The Solid Confessor" continues to defy convention and easy definition: an apocalyptic, dense, horrific, hyper-referential document of the intrusion of information science upon the biologic, "The Solid Confessor" is in the end a documentary of dystopic technocracy. This edition, lavishly illustrated by Kjell Otterness and with a new forward by A.J. Specktowsky, brings our nightmares of a world dominated by science, technology and biological mutation out from the dark and into the present. Vol. VIII in the Machine-Humanist Library.
"Pynchon meets Rabelais with all the clarity of a Godel Proof."
- Thomas Hubbard, NevYork Science Fiction Reports
"Burroughs on Bukowski. Double dip in Strugatsky, top with McLuhan."
- Seth Morely, Delmak Herald Book Review
- William Burroughs [Jan 30 2007 05:20 AM]
