American Meat

Dark Future

by Stuart Moore

It's the day after the day after tomorrow and the civilized world fights hard to maintain its fagade. Religious cults are growing more powerful by the day, the government is in the pocket of big business and shadowy forces control the corporations. Against this backdrop, animal rights campaigners wage a secret war on the corporations who experiment on defenseless creatures. Only one man, Baton MacKay, can stop the violence and he's bringing his robot monkey with him

Genres: Science Fiction

256 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published December 13, 2005

About the author

STUART MOORE is a writer, a book editor, and an award-winning comics editor.

Among his current writing projects are THE ZODIAC LEGACY, created and cowritten by Stan Lee and published by Disney, featuring an all-new team of teenaged super heroes in a series of illustrated prose novels and graphic novels; DOMINION: LAST SACRIFICE, a comic book series for Amazon/Jet City; and THANOS: DEATH SENTENCE, an original Marvel prose novel. Recent work includes EGOs, an original comic book series from Image Comics, and GARTER'S BIG SCORE, an original ebook novella for Kindle. He also contributed two series, TEACH and OUT WITH A BANG, to the launch of the online comics app Stela. Other comics work includes WOLVERINE NOIR and NAMOR: THE FIRST MUTANT (Marvel); FIRESTORM (DC Comics); assorted Star Trek and Transformers projects; and the science-fiction graphic novels EARTHLIGHT, PARA, SHADRACH STONE, and MANDALA. Prose writing includes the novel version of Marvel’s CIVIL WAR, and Disney Worldwide's JOHN CARTER: THE MOVIE NOVELIZATION.

Reviews

[Rae Gee · Rating 5 out of 5]

Dark and sickening, this a book about a future you don't want to live in. Fantastically written, it will make your skin crawl from the very first page. Read it at night at your own peril!

[Myk · Rating 4 out of 5]

I liked this world and I would like to read the other books in the series, but they are all out of print. I bought this book when it was first published and it sat on my shelf for the past five years. I didn't realize that it was published by Black Library and their books go out of print almost imediately.

[S.A. Barton · Rating 3 out of 5]

A fun read. Seemed to me it tried a little too hard to be over-the-top-strange. I don't mind strange. I enjoy strange. It just seemed a little too shrill about being strange in parts, and that distracted me from immersing myself in the book.

[Jim · Rating 5 out of 5]

If you like:
Cyberpunk
Dark humour
Satires of hyper-capitalism
Ridiculous and inventive plots
…you will love this novel.

I stumbled upon the second one ‘Reality Bites’ in a secondhand shop. They’re out however rather expensive to buy online as they’re out of print now. But I honestly loved this book so much. Abebooks is the best place to look for what I suspect are the cheapest prices.

[75338 · Rating 3 out of 5]

Meh

[Jessica Cuddy · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is currently my favorite book.
And I don't even like science fiction.
Here's what makes it my favorite:
This is so well written and hilarious and poignant all at the same time. It gives us a view of the USA in a modern dystopian society when animals are put on the same level as people are when it comes to moral value. The love story in this is also very edifying. So much use of malapropism makes this book worth the read. It's a long one, but definitely well worth the time and effort that it will take you to finish it.

[Craig Lee Burket · Rating 5 out of 5]

See my (rave) review of it on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/review/R2WVZS1D...