Party At The World's End - Couverture souple

Curcio, James

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0692239073 ISBN 13 : 9780692239070

Editeur : Mythos Media, 2014

Synopsis

Take a mad ride past the event horizon of sanity with Lilith, Dionysus, and their band Babylon in this Myth-punk vision of an alternate universe where 2012 went quite differently. This is the story of those Fallen who walk amongst us in the age of Anonymity and alternate identities, and hints of the dark world that is to come.

As Lilith and her band of miscreants transcend from escaped convicts to superstars of a different kind, they grapple with the intoxication of influence. Are they on an ego trip, or do they truly believe they are the reincarnated avatars of immortal entities? With great power comes great danger, and they soon find themselves chased by counter-terrorism units as America begins to crumble around them, and what began as little more than a prank turns a band into the ultimate symbol of death and rebirth.

With a style that is a compelling blend of Morrison's psychedelic storytelling and Thompson's hilarious gonzo flair, this first foray into the myth-punk world of the Fallen Cycle will make readers think they've taken hallucinogens themselves, as they join the protagonists in navigating the treacherous line between chaos and control.

• “Brutal, darkly funny, and, above all, honest.” Powell’s Books ‘Short List’.
• “A progressive fictional universe created by a wickedly talented scribe… Philip K Dick might have company someday…” Brooke Burgess, the Creator of award-winning animated series Broken Saints.
• “Curcio’s novels resemble strange and intricate life stories, bubbles of fiction floating in the depths of the collective subconscious. Occasionally they rise to the surface and burst into the conscious mind, releasing dreamscapes where fantasy merges with the mundane. Demigods cavort with goth-punk teenagers. Ambivalent authority figures lord over underground networks. Pseudo-shamanic rituals and sex magick abound.” Reality Sandwich.com interview.

Specs: 6"x9" paperback, speculative / occult fiction. Set in the FallenCycle.com Transmedia Universe.

This is an edited, single volume containing material first serialized as Fallen Nation, 404 Documents and Words of Traitors. Includes front cover and black and white art by Christopher DiSalvatore and James Curcio.
Visit FallenCycle.com for more information about the Mythos.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

James Curcio's career as polymath or dilettante (depending who you ask) began around 2001 when he graduated Bard college with the world's most lucrative degree (Philosophy), and co-founded a media collective. Partially inspired by The Factory, they cranked out media by day for clients ranging from local business to Glaxo Smith Kline and Roche, and avant-garde art weirdness by night. He left that partnership in NY to focus on a music project in LA, based on Jack Parson's Babalon Working, which worked out for them about as well as it did for Jack. Following that was ten years half lived on couches, futons, festivals, and conventions across America. During this time he worked on numerous transmedia projects. Some of these included Join My Cult!, a postmodern occult novel satirizing postmodern occultism published by New Falcon, (also of Aleister Crowley and RAW), Disinfo's anthology Generation Hex, which was launched at Alex and Allyson Grey's Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, and collaboration with Joseph Matheny and Dave Szulborski, two pioneers of Alternate Reality Games, on various popular ARG related comics, podcasts and websites. He co-starred in a bi-weekly "Gonzomentary" web series. This LSD-soaked, mangled gibberish inexplicably won the Outstanding Lead Actor Award and Outstanding Writing by the 2013 LA Web Series Festival, while receiving an Honorable Mention for Best Documentary at the 6th Philadelphia Independent Film Festival. He was editor-in-chief of Rebel News, an independent news outlet he founded with "House of Cards" consultant Gregg Housh. He keeps the dilettante tradition of corrupting the youth alive; his previous non-fiction anthologies, Apocalyptic Imaginary and The Immanence of Myth were both curriculum materials for several lit and philosophy courses at SUNY Binghamton. He ceased musical live performance in 2005 with an opening act for Front242, only since releasing studio collaborations on obscure labels you've never heard of. Present projects include Tales From When I Had A Face, Narrative Machines: Modern Myth, Propaganda, and Revolution, and endless research for the forthcoming anthology, Masks: Bowie and Artists of Artifice.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Mythos Media
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0692239073
• ISBN 13: 9780692239070
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 3
• Nombre de pages: 342
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