PUBLICATION INFORMATION
January 2011 • Raw Dog Screaming Press
198 pages • Trade Paperback & Hardcover • 6" x 9"
$14.95 (PB) • ISBN
$29.95 (HC) • ISBN
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Press Release • Excerpt • Contents • Acclaim
CONTACT
Publisher: Jennifer Barnes
Author: D. Harlan Wilson
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BOOK DESCRIPTION
Since he assassinated the Nowhere Man, Vincent Prague hasn't been the same, haunted by the ontological impossibility of the kill. His celebrity status has skyrocketed, however, and everybody wants a piece of him. The MAP (Ministry of Applied Pressure) promotes him to Anvil-in-Chief, the catbird's seat of special agents. Under the so-stupid-it's-genius alias "Vincent Codename Prague," he works a case that leads him to the Former Czech Republik's Prague, a dark cirque du city where androids run wild, femme fatales chronically manhandle him, and a mad chef named Doktor Teufelsdröckh has created a Hitler/Keats/Daikaiju hybrid that would make Frankenstein's monster sing like a Von Trapp ... In an overtechnologized world of constant reckoning, all Vincent has are his wits, his weapons, and a briefcase full of replaceable extremities to crack a mysterious code that, he soon discovers, resides within himself.
PRAISE
"This novel is from the wild edge of science fiction, in the tradition of Philip K. Dick's Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch—fast, smart, funny, and full of a scarily plausible vision of just how weird things could get if we take our biological fate into our own hands." Kim Stanley Robinson, Nebula, Hugo, Locus, BSFA and John W. Campbell Award-winning author of the Mars trilogy, the Three Californias trilogy, and The Years of Rice and Salt
"This intense mixture of giddy activity, cyberpunk essences, avant fusion and social satire may make your head spin at an accelerated rate. Actual brain damage is unlikely, in most cases." John Shirley, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Constantine, Black Glass: The Lost Cyberpunk Novel, and Black Butterflies
"Codename Prague is a thrill-a-minute combination of James Bond, Robert Ludlum, and cyberpunk, set in a dangerous, erotic, and not-as-distant-as-you'd-wish future." Mike Resnick, Nebula and Hugo Award-winning author of 100+ novels, collections, anothologies and nonfiction books
"Who IS this guy?" Pat Cadigan, Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning author of Synners and Fools
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
D. Harlan Wilson is an award-winning novelist, short story writer, literary critic, screenwriter, and associate professor of English at Wright State University-Lake Campus. Hundreds of his stories and essays have appeared in magazines, journals and anthologies throughout the world in several languages, and he is the editor-in-chief of The Dream People, a journal of irreal texts. His first novel, Dr. Identity, or, Farewell to Plaqudemia, received the Wonderland Book Award for best novel of 2007, and his short film The Cocktail Party, directed by Brandon Duncan, won multiple awards in 2007 at film festivals and conferences, including an official selection at Comic-Con. For more information, visit www.dharlanwilson.com or contact Wilson's publicist Stanley Ashenbach. |
