Dr. Identity (The Scikungfi Trilogy) - Hardcover

Wilson, D. Harlan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1933293233 ISBN 13: 9781933293233

Publisher: Raw Dog Screaming Pr, 2007

Synopsis

For a professor at Corndog University it's quite acceptable to purchase a robotic dopplegänger and have it teach your classes for you. But how does it reflect on your teaching skills when your dopplegänger murders the whole class? Follow the Dystopian Duo (Dr. Blah Blah Blah and his robot Dr. Identity) on a killing spree of epic proportions through the irreal postapocalyptic city of Bliptown where time ticks sideways, artificial Bug-Eyed Monsters punish citizens for consumer-capitalist lethargy, and ultraviolence is as essential as a daily multivitamin.

About this title

From the Back Cover

"More than a tale of science fiction, like any good science fiction story is, Wilson exposes the truth of why we keep going back to the same old narrative concepts, then destroys that truth by creating something completely original, proving that if the novel is dead, then Dr. Identity is a fully functional zombie." Susurrus Magazine

"At its core, this novel does indeed have a simple, almost pulpy, feel to it. That is only the setup for a book that, in each chapter, in nearly every sentence, contains far-reaching ideas that leave the brain racing to catch up. Wilson creates a whole future world that is as hilarious as it is horrifying. It is this black humor, this sci-fi slapstick, that makes the novel a thoroughly engaging read." The Harrow

"If you feel the need to read a novel that is part Blade Runner, part I, Robot, part Alice In Wonderland with a large dose of opium and a ladle full of magic mushrooms all sprinkled with an icing of coke, then I dare you to read Dr. Identity." Twisted Imaginings

"Reading Dr. Identity is like wandering a hall of mirrors: each page presents a monstrous but all-too-recognizable vision of our own world." Skullring.org

"Dr. Identity doesn't disappoint at all. You'll be blinded by morphing zoot-suits, troubled by hippopotamus whips and left stammering by the satire and the spectacle of it all. Brilliant and disturbing in equal measure." Fractal Matter

From the Inside Flap

"Let's dispense with the usual predictable analogies ("Kafka/Cronenberg-on-laughing-gas"), redundancies ("Phillip K. Dick/William Gibson-on-acid"), or accurate-but-somewhat-obscure references ("the most intense and, in a certain sense, the most significant young prose writer since Mark Leyner and Ben Marcus . . . establishes Wilson as the Steve Katz of the post-everything generation . . . vies with Derek Pell's The Little Red Book of Adobe Live Motion for being the funniest book of the new millennium"), and cut to the chase: D Harlan Wilson's hilarious meta-pulp SF novel, Dr. Identity, is a funhouse mirror whose cartoonish distortions continually amaze and amuse--until one realizes that what we¹re seeing is a disturbingly accurate vision of ourselves. An instant avant-pop classic by a major new talent. Two surgically-enhanced, stainless-steel thumbs way, way up!" Larry McCaffery, editor of Storming the Reality Studio and After Yesterday's Crash

"A blur-fast caper through a mediated nightmare future which will thankfully be prevented by a series of massive natural and man-made disasters." Steve Aylett, author of Slaughtermatic and Novahead

"Dr. Identity is a rollicking romp through a future so absurd, it can't help but feel real. D. Harlan Wilson shows us everything we know--but wish we didn't--about ourselves." Robert Venditti, writer of The Surrogates and Demon Knights

Edition details

• Publisher: Raw Dog Screaming Pr
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1933293233
• ISBN 13: 9781933293233
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 205