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For all its surface weirdness, Freaknest is a naif's tale, in the tradition of an innocent, orphaned Oliver Twist asking for a little more fod/love/humanity while being brutalized by a world beyond his comprehension. Olsen is one of those rare birds who is both a lit professor and an honest-to-god writer.
Richard Kadrey, WIRED |
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Freaknest is the sort of book we all want to write/read. It has the careful speculative world building of a Bruce Sterling, the horror and comedy of William S. Burroughs, and the adventures and great characters of an Alfred Bester.
Don Webb |
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In this disorienting maglev ride of a novel -- imagine a multidimensional rail and an ever melting and self-reconfiguring train -- a day-after-tomorrow world of great strangeness and cruelty comes stingingly to life. Rykki is a character who will break your heart, even as you discover analogs for her in our present-day realities. In any case, take the ride and jolt your personal sensorium.
Michael Bishop, Nebula Award Winner |
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Feral children. Illicit nano-drugs. False memories. Televisual consciousness. A Dickensian 2023 London in extremis. Just another day in Lance Olsen's imagination...
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