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Dr. Adder (Doctor Adder #1)
by
K.W. Jeter (Goodreads Author)
Set in a future where the United States has largely broken down into reluctantly cooperating enclaves run by a wide variety of strongmen and warlords, with a veneer of government control that seems largely interested in controlling technology. Dr. Adder is an artist-surgeon, who modifies sexual organs of his patients to satisfy the weirdest of perversion; he is clearly dep...more
Paperback, 237 pages
Published
February 2nd 1988
by Roc
(first published 1984)
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Dr. Adder is a brilliant surgeon in the horrible wreck of future Los Angeles, a messianic figure who earns his keep by re-sculpting the various teenage runaways of Orange County into the whores of Los Angeles - amputating and reconfiguring various body parts, wiping away their minds if necessary. This sickeningly sick character is an unrepentant woman-hater and homophobe; he is also the wildly popular and beloved symbol of freedom for both L.A. and the O.C. John Mox is a brillant corporate strat...more
Ok, I’m not sure where to even start. The book starts off in a giant chicken farm. Where people raise, eat, and have sex with, giant chickens… Even the girls… Cuz as we all know…
***Chicks Love Giant Cocks***
Sorry, I couldn’t help myself.
Anyways, the book goes from weird to weirder as the tale slowly unravels. The first 3rd of the book I didn’t really know what was going on. But, there was some important character development going on. After that, it’s almost like KW said, “OK, now that that’s o...more
***Chicks Love Giant Cocks***
Sorry, I couldn’t help myself.
Anyways, the book goes from weird to weirder as the tale slowly unravels. The first 3rd of the book I didn’t really know what was going on. But, there was some important character development going on. After that, it’s almost like KW said, “OK, now that that’s o...more
Originally published on my blog here in February 2001.
K.W. Jeter was unable to find a publisher for this, his first novel, for many years. This is not because of low quality, but because it was perceived to be obscene. Like J.G. Ballard's Crash, it portrays an extreme sexual perversion in order to make points about Western culture.
The setting is the Los Angeles of the fairly near future, a Philip K. Dick style background. There, on the Interface between LA and Oakland, surgeon Dr Adder pursues h...more
K.W. Jeter was unable to find a publisher for this, his first novel, for many years. This is not because of low quality, but because it was perceived to be obscene. Like J.G. Ballard's Crash, it portrays an extreme sexual perversion in order to make points about Western culture.
The setting is the Los Angeles of the fairly near future, a Philip K. Dick style background. There, on the Interface between LA and Oakland, surgeon Dr Adder pursues h...more
just a furious visionary mindfuck of a book, good lord. somewhere between dick's The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch and ballard's The Atrocity Exhibition. with maybe some MAD magazine thrown in. i'd heard about this book as a forerunner of cyberpunk (it was written in '71 but remained unpublished until the 80s) but had no idea it could be like this. makes Neuromancer look like a jane austen novel. just some really incredible (and incredibly dark) stuff-- though not a whole lot of feeling (oth...more
athis book is not for the faint of heart - sexual perversion, violence, dystopian vision oh yeah that's here but all done with a unique outsider's view, a healthy, twisted imagination, and a sense of humor. Highly reccommended.
I bought this book because I read an interview with KW Jeter in old issue of the music magazine Forced Exposure. I enjoyed this book. It's pretty thrilling in it's dystopian weirdness and there are lots of interesting ideas in it, such as concubines made from genetically modified chickens. Definatly a good fun pulp-y read, but I gave it three stars cause I couldn't really reccomend it to everyone. It reads a bit like a much trashier Willam Gibson. Also, since it was actually written in 1972, it...more
sick twisted cyberpunk
Ugh.
I was fortunate enough to land an unread copy, in a slipcase with built in ribbon mark, *and* autographed! This is quite possibly the first book to give a good glimpse at what a post-apocalyptic landscape would look like, set perfectly in the southland of California, bridging between LA and Orange counties.
This book is equal parts barbed satire of cultural mores, dystopian futurism, proto-cyberpunk, and obsessive study of body modification. If you can find it, get it.
You don't get much weirder than this long out of print classic. A richly disturbing novel, Dr. Adder is cyberpunk dystopianism at its finest.
Everybody should read this book! A underground classic.
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Kevin Wayne Jeter (born 1950) is an American science fiction and horror author known for his literary writing style, dark themes, and paranoid, unsympathetic characters. He has written novels set in the Star Trek and Star Wars universe, and has written three (to date) sequels to Blade Runner.
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