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The Tokyo Trilogy #1
Tokyo Sodom
"Brilliant, profound, provocative."- The Times Shortly before the destruction of Tokyo by a tsunami, gorgeous Angeliko Slavsko flies into the city to perpetrate an outrageous series of sexual provocations to be projected from every image-screen on Tokyo's illuminated avenues. Aided by a gang of ecstasy-crazed Tokyo girls, Angeliko cuts a swath through the city's subterranea, fucking a vast array of its most extreme denizens before a showdown with Japan's all-powerful tech-conglomerates in a detonating climax of revolutionary sex and terminal urban disaster. Like a mutant fusion of de Sade and J.G. Ballard, Tokyo Sodom inaugurates a new kind of contemporary sex writing. With its relentless, neon-fired thrust toward ecstatic annihilation, Tokyo Sodom is a carnal cataclysm, the first truly original erotic novel of the twenty-first century.
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First published September 11, 2013
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August 4, 2008
Imagine J.G. Ballard and William Gibson got together to collaborate on a pornographic Cyberpunk-ish novel. Imagine that they wrote it in Japanese and then had it translated into English. That’s what this book reminds me of.
In this extreme work, we encounter Japanese neo-fascists, mega-consumerism, a harsh noise musician, perverted Buddhist monks, coprophagia, an Aum Shinrikyo type cult, digital celebrities, and lots of sodomy.
There is gratuitous use of sexual slang words that will no doubt annoy a lot of people. But that repetition seems to have a purpose. It almost reads like a satire of pornographic literature with the backdrop of a future of ultra-consumerism and constant earthquakes. The author also slips in many Japanese subcultures which are pretty fascinating, too.
At first the stilted and unrealistic dialogue annoyed me but then I realized that it sounded like it was translated from a different language (but it wasn’t). So if you read it like that, it ceases to be annoying and it becomes fascinating.
One weird thing about this book is that almost every male inside seems to be extremely well-endowed. Perhaps another satirical element?
If you like extreme literature of a sexual and philosophical nature, get this book. Fans of De Sade take note.
In this extreme work, we encounter Japanese neo-fascists, mega-consumerism, a harsh noise musician, perverted Buddhist monks, coprophagia, an Aum Shinrikyo type cult, digital celebrities, and lots of sodomy.
There is gratuitous use of sexual slang words that will no doubt annoy a lot of people. But that repetition seems to have a purpose. It almost reads like a satire of pornographic literature with the backdrop of a future of ultra-consumerism and constant earthquakes. The author also slips in many Japanese subcultures which are pretty fascinating, too.
At first the stilted and unrealistic dialogue annoyed me but then I realized that it sounded like it was translated from a different language (but it wasn’t). So if you read it like that, it ceases to be annoying and it becomes fascinating.
One weird thing about this book is that almost every male inside seems to be extremely well-endowed. Perhaps another satirical element?
If you like extreme literature of a sexual and philosophical nature, get this book. Fans of De Sade take note.
May 30, 2026
Wow.
There's a very slim universe of people probably ready to receive this extreme work of pornographic cyberpunk but, if you are one of those jaded fools, I promise you this is one of the most interesting and fun reads you could possibly encounter.
Angeliko is a performance artist who travels to Japan to participate in a scheme dreamed up by her collaborator Junko that is improbably funded by a massive corporate entity. In clinical terms, Angeliko's task is to have anal sex with 20 men, film the messy aftermath, and then edit that footage into a short film to be projected throughout the Tokyo skyline. Her corporate sponsor has vague motivations that only become clear as you reach the end of the book; meanwhile, Junko hopes this outrageously provocative act will spontaneously incite a class revolution.
Angeliko therefore embarks on her quest throughout a bizarro version of Japan that may or may not be a highly offensive caricature. We have an Aum Shinrikyo-style death cult, Japanese neo-fascists, extreme noise musicians, murderous teenage school girls, and so much more. The book is written in a bizarre, matter-of-fact tone that has to be tongue in cheek; often the outrageousness coupled with the reactions of the characters triggered many guffaws. Barber is also, from what I can tell, a legit academic. It's therefore interesting to ponder how much of this has some deeper meaning and how much of it is just a put-on paid for the publishers of Creation Books.
A WTF ride that never lets you down and ends with a truly apocalyptic finale, I highly recommend this one to any person who has a stomach for bizarro fiction that's full of shit, semen and blood.
There's a very slim universe of people probably ready to receive this extreme work of pornographic cyberpunk but, if you are one of those jaded fools, I promise you this is one of the most interesting and fun reads you could possibly encounter.
Angeliko is a performance artist who travels to Japan to participate in a scheme dreamed up by her collaborator Junko that is improbably funded by a massive corporate entity. In clinical terms, Angeliko's task is to have anal sex with 20 men, film the messy aftermath, and then edit that footage into a short film to be projected throughout the Tokyo skyline. Her corporate sponsor has vague motivations that only become clear as you reach the end of the book; meanwhile, Junko hopes this outrageously provocative act will spontaneously incite a class revolution.
Angeliko therefore embarks on her quest throughout a bizarro version of Japan that may or may not be a highly offensive caricature. We have an Aum Shinrikyo-style death cult, Japanese neo-fascists, extreme noise musicians, murderous teenage school girls, and so much more. The book is written in a bizarre, matter-of-fact tone that has to be tongue in cheek; often the outrageousness coupled with the reactions of the characters triggered many guffaws. Barber is also, from what I can tell, a legit academic. It's therefore interesting to ponder how much of this has some deeper meaning and how much of it is just a put-on paid for the publishers of Creation Books.
A WTF ride that never lets you down and ends with a truly apocalyptic finale, I highly recommend this one to any person who has a stomach for bizarro fiction that's full of shit, semen and blood.
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