Sensation

Nick Mamatas

Description

Julia Hernandez has vanished without a trace...almost. Actually, she has slipped out of the world she knew and into the Simulacrum: a place between the cracks of human existence from which history is both guided and thwarted by the conflict between a species of anarchist wasp and a collective of hyper-intelligent spiders. Told ultimately from the point of view of another species, Sensation plays with the elements of the Simulacrum already in play: media reports, business-speak, blog entries, text messages, psychological evaluation forms and more.

Sujets

• Science fiction

Informations

• Publié par: PM Press
• Date de parution: 23 juin 2011
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781604865554
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 7 Mo

Extrait

PRAISE FOR S ENSATION

“Nick Mamatas continues his reign as the sharpest, funniest, most insightful and political purveyor of postpulp pleasures going. He is the People’s Commissar of Awesome.” —China Miéville, awardwinning author ofKrakenandThe City & the City

“Nick Mamatas’s brilliant comic novel,Sensation, reads like an incantation that both vilifies and celebrates the complex absurdity of the modern world.” —Lucius Shepard, winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy awards.

“The Majestic Plural, or Royal We, is well known—Sensation introduces the Arachnid Plural, the we of spiders, the ones that live inside you. The spiders care about you—deeply— and want to use you in a millennial war against certain para sitic wasps. No, I was wrong. The spiders only want to help. So let them in.” —Zachary Mason,New York Timesbestselling author ofThe Lost Books of the Odyssey

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Capter 3 previously appeared under te title “In te Glow” inPer Contrano. 14, Summer 2009.

ISBN: 978-1-60486-354-3 LCCN: 2010916473

PM Press P.O. Box 23912 Oakland, CA 94623 pmpress.org

Printed in te USA on recycled paper.

Cover: Jon Yates/Stealworks.com Layout: Jonatan Rowland

For Olivia, again.

Acknowedgements

Hé ŝà à é ôé bôôŝ ôé éŝ, é éé péôpé ôé ééŝ ô àçôéé. W  éx ôé, ï  îà î ŝé à é ŝàé GG A éàçé é é éçàé à àbû ô “ô-ûç-bô bû é.” Bû Sensation, ï à ép. ŝ ï’ é ô à  ŝŝé Téé Màààŝ, ô é é é ôé à çôpûé, à é ô éàŝ ô éé ô pé pàpé ô bôéŝ é ï îŝé é àŝ, û, ô ôûŝà ôŝ ô ŝ î- éé ôûŝà-ô bôô. Pàôà Côŝô à Sôûûà Q, bô ô Wéŝé Côéççû Sàé Uéŝ, àŝé à ŝûppôé é  ô  MA éŝŝ, ç ŝ bôô ŝ. Bà Cû épé  é épôà ŝàb ô é Wô Wé Wéb, à Cŝ Bé pçé   é ûé-é ŝô ô ŝ ô ô ôûŝ  ôéŝé “ôé” ŝôûé Mààà  é àŝ éàé àé é éô ààç ô 9/11. Sé Cû ’  à ï ŝôé ŝ ôé àbôû éé à àéàé ôéŝ ô àŝpôàô. O çôûŝé, ï ŝôû àŝô à  àé Mçéé Rûb, ô àé é ŝôé éxçéé çàéé àçé: “Wé à Dô Déô bôô. Yôû ô, ŝôé  ôéŝ, bû é àé’ û.” (Wé bô àéé à ï àé.) Hé éé’ŝ çé ûé ô àŝàôà çàpàŝ, é épôà çôàpŝé ô ç  2008 ééûà é é bàç ô  îŝ ôé—pû-Lûéçé, pôçà çàé, épéé péŝŝéŝ. Ràŝé Kààà pà à ààçé pàà  é ô ô à PM Péŝŝ-bàé ôôé, à Aéà Gbbôŝ  à ôé ô ô éé. Hàŝ àà, ééôé.