Slaughtermatic

by SteveAylett (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  1998

  $21.84

  Set in the blood-drenched chaos of Beerlight, a blown circuit, where to kill a man was less a murder than a mannerism, Dante Cubit and his pill-popping sidekick, the Entropy Kid, waltz into First National Bank with some serious attitude and a couple of snub guns. Murderous, trigger-happy cops, led by the doughnut-chomping redneck police chief, arrive in force, firing indiscriminately into the crowd gathered outside. Surrender or capture is out of the question. Dante's beloved, the murderous assassin Rosa Control , packing a not-so-small arsenal , prowls the streets, trying to engineer her man's escape. Will Dante slip past the forces of corruption and disorder to join his Rosa? What happens next is a tangled mess of reality and virtual reality.

• Used

  Paperback
  1999

  $3.25

  Dante Cubit and the Entropy Kid attempt a bank raid in Beerlight - the city where killing a man is less a murder than a mannerism, where false arrest is a moral duty. Moving effortlessly and seamlessly from real world to virtual reality we follow Dante in his efforts to steal the last book by rabble rouser and street philosopher extraordinaire Eddie Gamete. Meanwhile outside the bank, Blince, the local police chief, has closed down the area and deployed demographic cannon. Fortunately he doesn't realise that he has not left a virtual reality training site. Unfortunately Dante doesn't realise he is in the wrong bank. In a world where guns only shoot those who are asking for it and time locks propel you forward to a place where you've already been arrested, nothing is certain.

• Used

  Hardcover
  1998

  $3.25

  A blisterlingly original and entertaining SF novel from the Distresingly brilliant Steve Aylett Dante Cubit nad the Entropy Kid attempt a bank raid in Beerlight - the city where killing a man is less a murder than a mannerism,where false arrest is a moral duty. Moving effortlessly and seamlessly from real world to virtual reality we follow the progress of Dante in his efforts to steal the last book by rabble rouser and street philosopher extroadinaire Eddie Gamete. Meanwhile outside the bank, Blince the local police chief, has closed down the area and deployed demographic cannon. Fortunately he doesn't realise he is in the wrong bank. In a world where guns only shoot those who are asking for it and time locks propel you forward to a place where you've already been arrested, nothing is certain - except that Steve Aylett is taking you on the wildest ride of the imagination that SF has conjured up in the last 5 years.