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An "anti-sequel" to his cult novel, Tonguing the Zeitgeist. In the atrocity theme park called America, cannibalism isn't just another ride.... A nuclear meltdown, a governcorp conspiracy, damning data archived in time-lost computers.... Time Famine blows Ulysses Sysop-of-the-Plains through a time warp into the Sierra Nevada mountains — where he has to try to survive with the starving Donner Party!
"Lance Olsen is a twenty-first-century samurai Dante dressed in chrome chains, neoprene bodysuit and PVC boots and gauntlets, bearing a tattered map of unexplored dimensions of folly and misery, and armed to the teeth with the latest in literary weaponry: smart bombs of metaphor; full-bore, auto-fire hyperbole; and land mines of ideation.... Time Famine, nails our probable garbage-heap future to your brain like a guerrilla poster artist with staple-gun in hand...." — Paul Di Filippo
"In Lance Olsen's Time Famine life is a chronic televisual habit, a non-reality of fake memories conjured up by the media's incessant reinterpretation of past and present, a chronomutational flux where everything feels taped.... Time Famine is a feast." — Richard Calder, author of Dead Girls
"This book is proof that there are pleasures of the mind.... Lance Olsen's Time Famine joins experimental writing at its liveliest with a deep political awareness. Such a combination, rare and necessary in our culture at this time, heralds the way for novel writers who no longer want to dwell in the realms of the minimalism and egocentricity of what has been called 'American realism'." — Kathy Acker, author of Pussy King of the Pirates
328 pages, trade paper, 1996, ISBN 1-882633-15-6. Originally published by Permeable Press, merged with Cambrian Publications 1997 October.
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