Figurski At Findhorn On Acid

by Richard Holeton

Frank "Many-Pens" Figurski, paroled after serving six years for killing Professor Quentin Kingsley, is on a mission. Having discovered what is apparently a seventeenth-century mechanical pig washed up on the beach at Findhorn Park, Frank embarks on a quest to determine the pig's authenticity. But it won't be easy, because Frank isn't the only one obsessed with antique porcine contraptions, and he's on acid.

Will Frank beat The No-Hands Cup Flipper and Fatima Michelle Vieuchanger to the punch, and definitively differentiate the original pig from the forgeries? Or will Frank lose his way in endless trailer parks, desert strip malls and spaceships, allowing his competitors to bring home all the bacon?

Holeton's hypertext mixes numerology, science fiction, Brit prog rock, eighteenth-century robotics, Boy Scouts and classic TV with a charming cadre of unreliable (and occasionally delusional) narrators, dishing up a comic, frantic narrative that recalls Monty Python in its absurdity and erudition.

CD-ROM

Published January 1, 2001

About the author

Richard Holeton is author of Step Away from the Pizza: Fictions, etc., the cult classic hypertext novel Figurski at Findhorn on Acid (new edition freely available on the web), other widely-exhibited electronic literature, and Pushcart- and Best American-nominated short fiction. Winner of fellowships and residencies from the National Endowment for the Arts, MacDowell, and the California Arts Council, he's taught writing at San Francisco State and Stanford University, and currently serves as associate editor for flash literature for Open: Journal of Arts & Letters.