Хромосомное зло

The DNA Cowboys #2

by Mick Farren

Вселенная, созданная из осколков фантастических телесериалов, гонконгских фильмов о боевых искусствах, "черных" вестернов Сэма Пекинпа и шедевров маркиза де Сада...
Мир, истерзанный властью детей-диктаторов...
Гениальная философия разумных ящериц...
Биокомпьютеры, созданные монахами-воинами из буддистских обителей...
Стрелки-ганфайтеры, все еще живущие по принципу "Живых врагов нет"...
И лучший из воителей этого мира - Джеб Стюарт Хо.
Наемный убийца, обладающий даром "глубокой медитации".
Сейчас он снова выходит на охоту - на охоту за женщиной, которую монахи считают способной уничтожить человечество.
Великолепное безумие в жанре рок-н-ролл продолжается!!!
Читайте вторую книгу культовой трилогии Мика Фаррена!

Genres: Science Fiction, Fiction

320 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2006

About the author

Farren was the singer with the proto-punk English band The Deviants between 1967 and 1969, releasing three albums. In 1970 he released the solo album Mona – The Carnivorous Circus which also featured Steve Peregrin Took, John Gustafson and Paul Buckmaster, before leaving the music business to concentrate on his writing.

In the mid-1970s, he briefly returned to music releasing the EP Screwed Up, album Vampires Stole My Lunch Money and single "Broken Statue". The album featured fellow NME journalist Chrissie Hynde and Dr. Feelgood guitarist Wilko Johnson.

He has sporadically returned to music, collaborating with Wayne Kramer on Who Shot You Dutch? and Death Tongue, Jack Lancaster on The Deathray Tapes and Andy Colquhoun on The Deviants albums Eating Jello With a Heated Fork and Dr. Crow.

Aside from his own work, he has provided lyrics for various musician friends over the years. He has collaborated with Lemmy, co-writing "Lost Johnny" for Hawkwind, and "Keep Us on the Road" and "Damage Case" for Motörhead. With Larry Wallis, he co-wrote "When's the Fun Begin?" for the Pink Fairies and several tracks on Wallis' solo album Death in a Guitar Afternoon. He provided lyrics for the Wayne Kramer single "Get Some" in the mid-1970s, and continued to work with and for him during the 1990s.

In the early 1970s he contributed to the UK Underground press such as the International Times, also establishing Nasty Tales which he successfully defended from an obscenity charge. He went on to write for the main stream New Musical Express, where he wrote the article The Titanic Sails At Dawn, an analysis of what he saw as the malaise afflicting then-contemporary rock music which described the conditions that subsequently gave rise to punk.

To date he has written 23 novels, including the Victor Renquist novels and the DNA Cowboys sequence. His prophetic 1989 novel The Armageddon Crazy deals with a post-2000 United States which is dominated by fundamentalists who dismantle the Constitution.

Farren has written 11 works of non-fiction, a number of biographical (including four on Elvis Presley), autobiographical and culture books (such as The Black Leather Jacket) and a plethora of poetry.

Since 2003, he has been a columnist for the weekly Los Angeles CityBeat.

Farren died at the age of 69 in 2013, after collapsing onstage while performing with the Deviants at the Borderline Club in London.

Reviews

[Derek · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's more formed than The Quest of the DNA Cowboys, which is not to say that it was fully cooked. Farren took the wide-open setting of a broken frontier-like world--enclaves separated by the devouring 'nothing'--and gave it a bit more structure, but still uses the Spackle of transgressive behavior and vulgarity to fill in the gaps. I don't enjoy the urban squalor of Lutz nor the sexual dysfunction of Quhal.

Given all the pieces, it _wants_ to be more interesting: there's a brief section where the story flashes through the Mos Eisley motley of The Inn, where outcasts of the shattered world's societies congregate. It _wants_ to be a Weird Western in _The Dark Tower_ vein, but Farren never had that agenda.

[Arthur · Rating 5 out of 5]

Not traditional but in its way a savory story special enough that to stand out from all other stories. This is the second in the DNA Cowboys series and is about everything under the sun one can image could be in a sequel. It has a horde of fresh expressions and ideas which are even rare for the time period of 1976 when this is published. Sure a lot of more mature writers wouldn't be able to publish something like this because it would have been censored many times over before an editor/publisher, but DNA Cowboys's writer Farren has incredible depth for such shallowness in imagery its simply well worth reading.

[Ian · Rating 3 out of 5]

The story continues. Again, difficult to define a Farren, not so much the story, as how it unfolds. Our heroes from the first and previous book return, and this time with a friend, a 'monk' from an organisation that apparently is both snooping on all the surviving communities, but also maintaining the patches of normal matter that make these communities possible. The novel revolves around their involvement with a psycho, sadistic female, who plans to conquer the known worlds, and who is marked for termination.

[Sooz]

So I finished two of the three and while he has lots of plot ideas (though he does seemed fixated on sex and violence) there isn't much to indicate a bigger picture. There is no vision ... nothing that suggests there will be a pay off in the third. I doubt I'll read the last in the trilogy ... I think I have given Farren more than enough of my time