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Nightmare in Silicon

by Colette Phair

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Getting medical tests performed on her to pay the rent, staying up all night with her scarred and strange friends, sharing beds with her boyfriend and whoever else comes along, Ymo's is a world so infused with sex that it's become an identity. Ymo is a woman. That is, until diagnosis with a life-threatening illness leaves her no chance of survival, except in the gender-neutral body of a robot. What follows is her struggle to stay human while existing as a sexless object. Ymo's final roleas guineapigwill betoanswer the question What if people didn't dream?
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"A toxic-shock torrent of bad energy and beautiful language, Colette Phair's 'Nightmare in Silicon' is recklessly brave and driven writing, brimming with fluorescent style and startling ideas. Hers is a strong, new voice that demands and deserves to be listened to."
--ALAN MOORE, author of V For Vendetta and Watchmen

"Cyberpunk is alive and well. Nightmare in Silicon is convulsively funny, hideously diseased, erotically oozing, tightly plotted, and told with a wonderfully sharp tongue."
--RUDY RUCKER, author of Software and Mathematicians in Love

"If Kathy Acker had lived long enough to have access to an iPod, Red Bull and Second Life, she might have come to sound like Colette Phair... Phair takes no prisoners in her vivid, sonorous truth-telling."
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ISBN:
9780978549992
Author:
Phair, Colette
Publisher:
Chiasmus Press
Subject:
Literary
Publication Date:
November 2007
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Pages:
108
Dimensions:
8.50x5.50x.22 in. .32 lbs.
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