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Presents the the story of Primavera, a "dead girl"--a brand of engineered doll women who were once human--and her infected lover, who become caught up in a power war between the CIA and Far Eastern pornocrats. A first novel.
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After an invasion of Venusians in the 1950s, the Wild West is separated from the rest of the planet and exists as it had in the past, without the benefits of modern technology, and gunslinger John Twist makes his way through the bizarre frontier landscape, fending off the advances of Miss Viva Venera, a Venusian necrobabe, and the sinister plans of the murderous Sexton. Original.
The weird and wonderful world of Birch's fantastical babies, never-before-published and now available in a beautifully produced gift book.
Takayuki Tatsumi is one of Japan’s leading cultural critics, renowned for his work on American literature and culture. With his encyclopedic knowledge and fan’s love of both Japanese and American art and literature, he is perhaps uniquely well situated to offer this study of the dynamic crosscurrents between the avant-gardes and pop cultures of Japan and the United States. In Full Metal Apache, Tatsumi looks at the work of artists from both sides of the Pacific: fiction writers and poets, folklorists and filmmakers, anime artists, playwrights, musicians, manga creators, and performance artists. Tatsumi shows how, over the past twenty years or so, writers and artists have openly and exube...
Raul Riviera is Impakto - an aborted child who refused to die. But he has not realised this for forty years, until he is approached by another such on a flight back to his home in the Philippines. And now his life begins anew… Rebuilt like a grand guignol Six Million Dollar Man after the plane he is travelling in crashes, Riviera and his artificer, Maximillia Morales, journey through unknown regions to destroy both the lords of his own, impakto world, and the King of Heaven who created them. Through demons, angels and to the very gates of Heaven themselves, Raul Riviera stalks his enemies and pursues his love - Maximillia.
It is the fifty-third century. After an unknown cataclysm the ability to invent or maintain technology vanished. Gradually, humanity has separated into those who live on the surface and those who took to the vast areas below ground - the goblins, they are called, or "Malignos". Slowly, the Malignos have mutated into demons, some beautiful but all marked by horns, tails and bat-like wings. Captain Richard Pike must venture underground in search of an antidote for the deadly poison fed to Gala, his Malignos lover, by her own people in the caverns under the Pilipinas - the Philippines. With sword, native cunning and somewhat wavering courage, Pike's quest will lead him through the wonders and horrors of the Malignos' world...
During the German advance through Belgium into France in 1940, Captain de Reixach is shot dead by a sniper. Three witnesses, involved with him during his lifetime in different capacities - a distant relative, an orderly and a jockey who had an affair with his wife - remember him and help the reader piece together the realities behind the man and his death.A groundbreaking work, for which Claude Simon devised a prose technique mimicking the mind's fluid thought processes, The Flanders Road is not only a masterpiece of stylistic innovation, but also a haunting portrayal - based on a real-life incident - of the chaos and savagery of war.