Showing posts with label Mick Farren. Show all posts
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Wednesday, 12 September 2012

THE QUEST OF THE DNA COWBOYS

Mayflower SF paperback, 1976. Cover illustration by Peter Jones.

Rear cover fluff: 
"THE WEST THAT'S WILDER THAN YOUR WEIRDEST NIGHTMARES 
From out of the little township of Pleasant Gap stride Billy and Reave, the DNA Cowboys. Reproduction pistols in their hands, portable generators at their belts, they hit the long trail riding through the molecular dissolution of the Nothings, teetering on the edge of non-existence, to Graveyard, the wheelfreaks' paradise, Dogbreath, home of the blue-scaled whores, Port Judas, Puritan outpost, through Dropville and the hippy immortals to the terror city of Akio-Tech. 
Scraps of contemporary myth, fragments of futuristic horror, strange imaginings and bright strands of story-telling ebb, flow, float, jostle and synthesize into this, the first volume of a dazzling new science fantasy trilogy."

Thursday, 15 September 2011

THE TEXTS OF FESTIVAL

Mayflower SF paperback, 1975. Cover illustration by Peter Jones.

"In the wilderness of Britain little of civilization remains. Decadence and division have overtaken the huddled people of festival. And faith in the texts of the old gods - Dhillon, Djeggar and Morrizen - is fading fast.
 
Beyond the city walls the tribes are massing, united in evil intent. Hill savages fired by ritual superstition to pillage and slaughter. Satanic horseriders inspired by drugs to rape and defile. And crystal-crazed iggy at the head of them all - a despot in search of a territory. A territory like festival."