A collection of chilling and prescient stories about ecological apocalypse and the merging of human and machine.Welcome to Moderan, world of the future. Here perpetual war is waged by furious masters fighting from Strongholds well stocked with arsenals of fear and everyone is enamored with hate. The devastated earth is coated by vast sheets of gray plastic, while humans vie to replace more and more of their own soft parts with steel. What need is there for nature when trees and flowers can be pushed up through holes in the plastic? Who requires human companionship when newmetal mistresses are waiting? But even a Stronghold master can doubt the catechism of Moderan. Wanderers, poets, and his own children pay visits, proving that another world is possible.As if Whitman and Nietzsche had collaborated, wrote Brian Aldiss of David R. Bunchs work. Originally published in sciencefiction magazines in the 1960s and 70s, these mordant stories, though passionately sought by collectors, have been unavailable in a single volume for close to half a century. Like Anthony Burgess in A Clockwork Orange, Bunch coined a mindbending new vocabulary. He sought not to divert readers from the horror of modernity but to make us face it squarely.This volume includes eleven previously uncollected Moderan stories.

Binding: Paperback;352 pages; Publisher: New York Review Books; Classification: FL; Weight: 480 g; Dimensions: 181 x 159 x 19

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