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A Splendid Chaos [Paperback]

John Shirley (Author)
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July 6, 1989
Zero is a young film maker who believes his whole life and career are mapped out before him. That is, until the night he and his friends walk into a rock club ... and are caught in a dazzling trap that spans worlds.

They are dropped onto a dreamlike planet whose surrealistic beauty cannot hide its grotesque reality. Fool’s Hope — a world, so stunningly bizarre, nightmares are irrelevant. Here, abductees — both human and alien — are pitted against a neverending succession of hellish parasites, carnivores, shape-changers, and symbiotes.

Yet the greatest enemy of all could be human. When former professor Harmon Fiskle is transformed by the Current — a roving mutagenic force — he is freed to pursue his megalomaniacal nature. He advocates a depraved policy of social Darwinism, and forges a grotesque alliance of Twists: men and women who have sacrificed their own humanity to become monstrous mutations of their former selves.

With an entire world at stake, only Zero can solve the mystery of Fool’s Hope ... if it isn’t already too late.

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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'... the neon-lit frontier of sensory experience.' -- Publisher's Weekly --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

From the Inside Flap

' ... a revel of delirious, intoxicating, popular surrealism.' — China Mieville author of Perdido Street Station --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 30 pages
  • Publisher: Mandarin (July 6, 1989)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0749300477
  • ISBN-13: 978-0749300470
  • Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.3 x 1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 8.5 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,371,244 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

John Shirley won the Bram Stoker Award for his story collection Black Butterflies, and is the author of numerous novels, including the best-seller DEMONS, the cyberpunk classics CITY COME A-WALKIN', ECLIPSE, and BLACK GLASS, and his latest, new from Simon & Schuster, the urban fantasy novel BLEAK HISTORY. He is a screenwriter, having written for television and movies; he was co-screenwriter of THE CROW. He will be in Prime Books' THE YEAR'S BEST DARK FANTASY AND HORROR anthology, this year, and his story collection IN EXTREMIS: THE MOST EXTREME SHORT STORIES OF JOHN SHIRLEY from Underland Press has been getting rave advance reviews. His novel BIOSHOCK: RAPTURE , telling the story of the creation and undoing of Rapture, from the hit videogame BIOSHOCK is about to come out from TOR books.

He is also a lyricist, having written lyrics for 18 songs recorded by the Blue Oyster Cult (especially on their albums Heaven Forbidden and Curse of the Hidden Mirror), and his own recordings.

John Shirley has written only one nonfiction book, GURDJIEFF: AN INTRODUCTION TO HIS LIFE AND IDEAS, published by Penguin/Jeremy Tarcher.

Other John Shirley story collections include BLACK BUTTERFLIES, IN EXTREMIS, LIVING SHADOWS and REALLY, REALLY, REALLY, REALLY WEIRD STORIES.

 

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5.0 out of 5 stars As good as it is strange, October 28, 2007
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This was a great read. Every now and again there is a book you regret picking up because you eventually realize you're not going to sleep much that night. I read this book in a single sitting on a school night back in college. A tale of kidnappings to strange places for sinister purposes... a test of character, mutation - inside and out. This book has it all. If you are a die-hard John Shirley fan, this book is probably one of the reasons.
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