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Over 600 pages of original SF novellas and stories by Thomas Moore, Audrey Szasz, Christopher Zeischegg, Simon Morris (his final completed novella), Blake Butler, Kenji Siratori, SJXSJC, Alexandrine Ogundimu, David Cotner, Ian Haig and Philip Best, plus Adam Lehrer on Crypto-Transgression in Art and Jarett Kobek interviewed by Grant Maierhofer.
With a selected bibliography, 1967-1978.
Cover design by Sarah Froelich
Editorial Assistance by Audrey Szasz
With a selected bibliography, 1967-1978.
Cover design by Sarah Froelich
Editorial Assistance by Audrey Szasz
- GenresFictionShort Stories
614 pages, Paperback
First published February 12, 2022
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August 27, 2022
This is good shit from everyone involved
March 12, 2022
Providence, the GM interview with JK, is, aside from New Juche, the essence of the AS project for me. Deeply thoughtful folks with ineluctable exploratory impulses saying things out loud that no one else is saying.
Can’t wait to read the rest of this.
Can’t wait to read the rest of this.
February 28, 2025
Every story was 5 stars, and so many great authors. One of the best anthologies I have ever read.
February 11, 2023
A gigantic anthology of SF stories and novellas from Amphetamine Sulphate, one of the coolest publishers there is. Full of incredibly unique, often experimental pieces from the AS roster of geniuses. With the art, interviews and essays in the mix it felt like reading an enormous endless zine which I loved. Highly recommend!
August 27, 2022
Mandatory. All the short stories are excellent, but David Cotner “They Like You” especially pierced me like a professional interrogation technician with acupuncture needles. Read it before your next job interview.
December 5, 2023
An ambitious, 600-page tome of science fiction, body horror and related sci-fi-body-horror transgressions that mostly works, and is perhaps greater than the sum of its parts.
In order of appearance: Ian Haig's Container Bodies was as gross as the parasitic infection it describes, and quite intriguing. Reading Simon Morris' Airlocked and realizing you personally know some of the people he's cryptically writing about made it all the more real. This is autobiographical, not a sci-fi piece, and, like most of his writing, resolves to be something quite sad, especially here knowing this was his final work. Alexandrine Ogundimu's three pieces, Autogynephilia, Fringe Benefits and Fascism is Imperialism Applied at Home, are brief snippets incorporating identity politics, virtual reality, surveillance culture and drone warfare into an effective read on a speculative near-future. Grant Maierhofer's interview of author Jarrett Kobek was the highlight of the book for me, as I was previously unaware of Kobek and appreciated many of his viewpoints. Christopher Zeischegg's The Most Important Part was surprisingly readable, if rather depraved, and likely something that could only have come from an ex-pornstar who has slipped into the underworld of alternative publishing. David Cotner's They Like You felt the most traditionally "sci-fi", with somewhat of a Dickian edge, and as such was probably my favourite piece of fiction in the book. Adam Lehrer's Crypto-Transgression: A Primer was somewhat less cringe than anticipated, though didn't feel fully formed (and he admits the faults in his own theory at the end of it). There are still other pieces within, from the likes of SJXSJC, Thomas Moore, Kenji Siratori, Blake Butler, Audrey Szasz, and Amphetamine Sulphate head honcho himself, Philip Best (with a highly Burroughsian approach, as usual), but it's been nearly two months since I read the majority of this and my initial impressions have been lost to time.
In order of appearance: Ian Haig's Container Bodies was as gross as the parasitic infection it describes, and quite intriguing. Reading Simon Morris' Airlocked and realizing you personally know some of the people he's cryptically writing about made it all the more real. This is autobiographical, not a sci-fi piece, and, like most of his writing, resolves to be something quite sad, especially here knowing this was his final work. Alexandrine Ogundimu's three pieces, Autogynephilia, Fringe Benefits and Fascism is Imperialism Applied at Home, are brief snippets incorporating identity politics, virtual reality, surveillance culture and drone warfare into an effective read on a speculative near-future. Grant Maierhofer's interview of author Jarrett Kobek was the highlight of the book for me, as I was previously unaware of Kobek and appreciated many of his viewpoints. Christopher Zeischegg's The Most Important Part was surprisingly readable, if rather depraved, and likely something that could only have come from an ex-pornstar who has slipped into the underworld of alternative publishing. David Cotner's They Like You felt the most traditionally "sci-fi", with somewhat of a Dickian edge, and as such was probably my favourite piece of fiction in the book. Adam Lehrer's Crypto-Transgression: A Primer was somewhat less cringe than anticipated, though didn't feel fully formed (and he admits the faults in his own theory at the end of it). There are still other pieces within, from the likes of SJXSJC, Thomas Moore, Kenji Siratori, Blake Butler, Audrey Szasz, and Amphetamine Sulphate head honcho himself, Philip Best (with a highly Burroughsian approach, as usual), but it's been nearly two months since I read the majority of this and my initial impressions have been lost to time.
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