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The Desperate Ones
by
Allyson Shaw (Goodreads Author)
In a world where corporate religion decides every level of existence, Dominion Capital has slated the walled city of Pottersfield for obliteration. Those within must survive or be subsumed. While the city's wealthiest residents are lifted out, the rest are trapped behind. Their lives intersect with a certainty that only some will live to see the strange new world that bloo...more
Paperback, 255 pages
Published
June 12th 2009
by Lulu.com
(first published June 2009)
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This is the first book in the cyberpunk genre that I've ever read, although I've encountered plenty of theoretical discussions surrounding it through Donna Haraway's theory of the cyborg. It being my first foray into this type of speculative fiction, I think I was a little unprepared for the elaborate (but foreign, to me) language that author Shaw uses to anchor her story in a (post?)apocalyptic setting. If one is already familiar with similar works, I would imagine that diving into surroundings...more
The Desperate Ones is a story of a dystopian future, where the discarded city of Pottersfield is schedules for destruction and what the residents of that do in face of the oncoming obliteration. Rhubarb and Cora are on separate journeys for the key to their pasts, Lola drudges through the city for drugs, and Rabine and Makita attempt to subvert the destruction with a program hidden in Rhubarb's mind.
Ms. Shaw has an excellent command of the language and one of the strengths of the Desperate Ones...more
Ms. Shaw has an excellent command of the language and one of the strengths of the Desperate Ones...more
A dizzying, breathless sci-fi apocalypse thriller. Unsurprisingly, the prose is a bit more poetic than other similarly-themed novels in this genre, given that author Shaw's previously published book was a collection of poetry. It's a bit disorienting at first, and the reader may be on somewhat unsteady ground throughout, but the relentless pace is compelling and the book's brevity lends it to repeated readings.
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Allyson Shaw lives in York where she knits, brews beer and writes while trying not to lose her Californian-by-way-of-the-Midwest accent.
An award-winning poet, she is author of The Bon-bon and Love Token, a Powell’s poetry best-seller. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and her poems have been selected for awards by Pulitzer Prize winners John Ashbery and Charles Simic. Much of her f...more
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An award-winning poet, she is author of The Bon-bon and Love Token, a Powell’s poetry best-seller. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and her poems have been selected for awards by Pulitzer Prize winners John Ashbery and Charles Simic. Much of her f...more
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