PUBLICATION INFORMATION
1 March 2007 • Raw Dog Screaming Press
212 pages • Trade Paperback & Hardcover • 6" x 9"
$14.95 (PB) • ISBN 978-1933293325
$29.95 (HC) • ISBN 978-1933293233
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Press Release • Excerpt • Contents • Acclaim
CONTACT
Publisher: Jennifer Barnes
Author: D. Harlan Wilson
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BOOK DESCRIPTION
Winner
of the Stick Figure Prize for Language & Literature and the Wonderland Book Award for best Bizarro novel of 2007, Dr.
Identity, or, Farewell to Plaquedemia takes place in the
irreal, postcapitalist city of Bliptown, where time ticks sideways,
artificial Bug-Eyed Monsters punish citizens for consumer-capitalist
lethargy, and ultraviolence is as essential as a daily multivitamin.
The action begins when the psychotic surrogate-android of a disgruntled
English professor accitentally murders a student, then a few facutly
and staff members, then a movie star, all of which incites the
anger and vengeance of the entire Amerikan nation. Wilson's debut
novel marks the first installment of the Scikungfi trilogy.
PRAISE
"A
blur-fast caper through a mediated nightmare future which will
thankfully be prevented by a series of massive and man-made disasters." Steve Aylett, author of Slaughtermatic and Lint
"Dr.
Identity is a rollicking romp through a future so absurd,
it can't help but feel real. D. Harlan Wilson shows us everything
we know—but wish we didn't—about ourselves." Robert Venditti, writer of The Surrogates
"Let’s
dispense with the usual predictable analogies ('Kafka/Cronenberg-on-laughing-gas'),
redundancies ('Phillip K. Dick/William Gibson-on-acid'), or accurate-but-somewhat-obscure
references ('the most intense and, in a certain sense, the most
significant young prose writer since Mark Leyner and Ben Marcus
... establishes Wilson as the Steve Katz of the post-everything
generation ... vies with Derek Pell’s The Little Red
Book of Adobe LiveMotion for being the funniest book of the
new millennium'), and cut to the chase: D Harlan Wilson's hilarious
meta-pulp SF novel, Dr. Identity, is a funhouse mirror
whose cartoonish distortions continually amaze and amuse—until
one realizes that what we’re seeing is a disturbingly accurate
vision of ourselves. An instant avant-pop classic by a major new
talent. Two surgically-enhanced, stainless-steel thumbs way, way
up!” Larry McCaffery, editor of Storming the Reality
Studio and After Yesterday’s Crash
"This
book's better'n the bushelfull of Benzedrine-spiked donut holes
with which Dr. Identity tries to bribe his students into civilized
demeanor! Pomo cybertheory never tasted so good or made you fly
this high!" American Book Review
"Readers with a taste for wacky experimental fiction will enjoy D. Harlan Wilson's Dr. Identity, or, Farewell to Plaquedemia: A Pulp Science Fiction Novel, set in the postcapitalist city of Bliptown." Publisher's Weekly
“Madcap,
macabre black comedy … Wilson's sardonic, riotously imaginative
vision of the future holds a mirror up to our own increasingly
chaotic society and makes provocative entertainment.” Booklist
"Only
those with a yearning for something different, something truly
off-the-wall, something that pushes the boundaries of good taste
and what they've come to expect from a novel should take the time
to journey through D. Harlan Wilson's Bizarro future world. And
those who do will find the experience entertaining and at times
maybe even a little enlightening." ChiZine
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. |