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ECLIPSE PENUMBRA
A SONG CALLED YOUTH — BOOK TWO
John Shirley
'Almost anyone could be a fascist under the right circumstances. If they get scared enough. That's why we have to fight it so hard. Because it never quite goes away.'
The guerilla war against the Second Alliance and its plans for a European apartheid intensifies in this second volume of John Shirley's A Song Called Youth.
Shirley's writing is justly renowned for its romanticism and decadence, but as Eclipse Penumbra makes clear, it's most remarkable attributes are passion and vision. You don't read a John Shirley novel so much as you experience it.
Revised and updated.
REVIEW:
'A complex, bizarre, and unique vision of the coming century, with a kaleidoscopic mix of politics, pop, and paranoia.'
YOUR FEEDBACK:
***** A Fine Work Of Cyberpunk Fiction
Once more John Shirley gives a fascinating, riveting tale about 21st Century Fascism attempting to take hold in the United States and Western Europe, in the waning phases of a conventional war between the United States and the Soviet Union. Dissent and treachery are rife in the leadership of the Christian Fascist Second Alliance (SA) and its primary opposition, the New Resistance (NR). The SA's grip on Western Europe grows tighter as it bids to win control of FirStep, the orbiting space colony. A splendid tale filled with mesmerizing characters that is among the finest works of cyberpunk fiction.
John Kwok, New York, NY
(from Amazon.com, June 2, 2001)
***** Deep, disturbing, beyond all catagory
A heavy, dramatic, science fictionish story about facism youth, old age, and propaganda. The second volume in the amazing Song Called Youth trillogy, with even more amazing charaters that the first volume, the stakes are higher, and it's even more crushing. Simply amazing. You should buy every John Shirley book you can find, but it's good if you can find this one.
Neal Soldofsky, Basement, unkown location
(From Amazon.com, November 8, 2000)
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