- Fiction, general
Set in a future where the United States has largely broken down into reluctantly cooperating enclaves run by a wide variety of strongmen and warlords, with a veneer of government control that seems largely interested in controlling technology. Dr. Adder is an artist-surgeon, who modifies sexual organs of his patients to satisfy the weirdest of perversion; he is clearly depicted as a partly criminal, partly countercultural figure in a future Los Angeles.
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Contemporary, grave, bleak and unpretentious.
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- warmbleak
- unpretentiousprestige
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- Author
- K. W. Jeter
- First published
- 1984
- Pages
- 231
- Publisher
- Grafton, Denoël, DENOEL
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English, French
- ISBN
- 9782207304099
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**Kevin Wayne Jeter** is an American science fiction and horror author known for his literary writing style, dark themes, and paranoid, unsympathetic characters. He has written novels set in the Star Trek and Star Wars universes, and has written three sequels to Blade Runner.
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