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Larry McCaffery (ed.): AVANT-POP: Fiction for a Daydream Nation


Black Ice Books
PO Box 241
Boulder CO, 80306


250 pp., $7.00

Fictions ranging from cyber-punk SF to PostModernLiterature, with plenty of sex & violence and enough sense to laugh at it(self) sometimes. Some older hands like Kathy Acker & Samuel R. Delany, lots of newer punks, and some surprizes like Harry Polkinhorn in the SciFi mode. Bite-size bits make this easy to get into and out of--if you like, say, Wm. S. Burroughs, it makes for a "pleasant read". One of the initial offerings from Black Ice Books, somehow in cahoots with a resurrected Fiction Collective, which has seen several incarnations.--luigi


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This review originally appeared in TapRoot Reviews #2,
Copyright Burning Press 1993, 1995.

Contact the editor, luigi-bob drake, at Burning Press