![]() ![]() ![]() Deliberately inconsistent, most characters wallow in a state of existential angst and quantum absurdity, eventually coming to imaginatively grisly ends or beginnings, in a universe where sexual tourism powers economies and “stars and galaxies. A policewoman investigates a series of murders while trying on various names for size the renegade crew of Nova Swing takes aboard dangerous cargo and a woman appears suspended from a star-sized alien research tool thousands of years old. By turns brilliantly satirical, impenetrably dense, and deliberately crude, it alternates between the near future, where twice-widowed Anna Waterman is haunted by memories of her first husband, and a further space-faring future. The third in genre legend Harrison’s Kefahuchi Tract sequence, following Light (2002) and Nova Swing (2007), is a self-referential mash-up of comedic horror and space opera caricature. ![]()
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