Nothing and no-one is spared by the acid tongue of this novel – not even the kitchen implements, not even you. A techno-utopia-takedown-turned-
Description
A head-trip through capitalism’s final frontier.
Legal-high addict, gaming enthusiast, and principal shareholder of AstroLabs™, Lex Rameses, has recently discovered—and purchased—Proserpina: a planet with a near-identical ecosystem to Earth’s. Yet, although his humanistic, hipster pretensions mean that many people admire him, there is still one thing standing in the way of his space-colonization program: as of yet, there is no way to travel to Proserpina safely. Enter a cast of mad scientists, Astro–Marxists, a neurorobotic AI hivemind, an extinction anxiety addict, the victims of an interrelated crypto-currency gaming scam, and a seemingly endless succession of ravers and gamers in search of the ultimate hallucinogenic, carcinogenic, neü-space-age high…
Reviews
Hallucinatory and haunting, The Ultraviolet Catastrophe is pure stinging pleasure. Its Götterdämmerung rings for them and thee.
Susan Finlay has her finger on the pulse of Berlin.
A wild, genre-bending blast with real scale and sweep. The Three Body Problem meets Blue Lard.
