Battles without Honor or Humanity

by D. Harlan Wilson

This special edition of D. Harlan Wilson's outré-fiction collections brings together all of the stories from volumes one and two and includes an additional, Pushcart Prize-nominated novelette, "Sacrosanctum."

Kindle Edition

First published January 23, 2017

About the author

D. Harlan Wilson is an award-winning American novelist, literary critic, editor, playwright, and college professor. He is the author of over thirty book-length works of fiction and nonfiction, and hundreds of hist stories, plays, essays, and reviews have been published across the world in more than ten languages. Recent books include Strangelove Country: Science Fiction, Filmosophy, and the Kubrickian Consciousness, Minority Report, Jackanape and the Fingermen, and Outré.

Reviews

[John · Rating 3 out of 5]

I really wanted to like this...but it largely fell flat for me.

Imagine a really erudite but bro-ish writer obsessed with martial arts wrote as it Burroughs and Ballard succumbed to the social media/twitter age. There's a lot of cleverness here, but there's a lot of cleverness everywhere nowadays. It's surreal, meta, dreamlike and gonzo.

It lies somewhere between short stories, flash fiction, and poetry. It's got a nice vocabulary and some interesting ideas.

Ultimately, this feels like a good writer did Nanowrimo.