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The Wall of America
| Author: | Thomas M. Disch |
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Tachyon Publications, 2008 |
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| Book Type: | Collection |
| Genre: | Science-Fiction |
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Synopsis
These surreal, satiric stories pay a mesmerizing visit to the shadowy zone that lies between our everyday lives and a perilously tangible near-future.
In "The Wall of America," the Department of Homeland Security has put up a border wall between the United States and Canada. But the NEA has plans for the wall as well, turning it into the world's largest art gallery. After the Rapture, working-class life for "A Family of the Post-Apocalypse" is not as different as one might imagine, despite the occasional plague of biker-gang locusts. Between addiction and art is "Ringtime," where a criminal is trapped in a recursive compulsion to visit other people's memories while he is forced to record his own for an eager audience. A Somali schoolgirl living in post-WWIII Minneapolis goes on a bloody crusade to rid her town of a familiar predator, one who might just be a monster, in "White Man."
Vivid, starkly imagined, and strikingly articulate, this disquieting collection is a journey that skillfully straddles the line between playful absurdity and pointed irony.
Table of Contents:
- A Family of the Post-Apocalypse
- A Knight at the Opera
- Canned Goods
- In Praise of Older Women
- In Xanadu
- Jour de Fête
- Nights in the Gardens of the Kerhonkson Prison for the Aged and Infirm
- One Night, or, Scheherazade's Bare Minimum
- Painting Eggplants
- Ringtime
- The Abduction of Bunny Steiner, or a Shameless Lie
- The First Annual Performance Art Festival at the Slaughter Rock Battlefield
- The Man Who Reads a Book
- The Owl and the Pussycat
- The White Man
- Three Chronicles of Xglotl and Rwang
- Torah! Torah! Torah!: Three Bible Tales for the Third Millennium
- Voices of the Kill
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