A SPLENDID CHAOS

John Shirley

REVIEW:

' ... a revel of delirious, intoxicating, popular surrealism.'

— China Mieville
author of Perdido Street Station

... the neon-lit frontier of sensory experience.'

— Publisher's Weekly

'He's our genre's most in-your-face writer who yet insists on redemption. I identify that as his central theme: a buyback of those haunted, dispossessed parts of our humanity that we thought were dead, that then live once again in his prose, feeling pain. He's a spiritual writer of carnal intensity.'

— A.A. Attanasio
on John Shirley

YOUR FEEDBACK:

*****A rare, mind-altering book

This is the only book I've ever read three times. I go back to it every couple of years for a dose of something truly alien. The more books I read, the more I realize "A Splendid Chaos" is unique.

— K. Butler, CA
September 4, 2000 (off Amazon.com)

**** A Splendid Chaos - splendidly enlightening

The book is multicoloured joy to the imagination and the central ideas are hilarious and deeply illuminating for the whacky light they cast on the nature of human life, our minds and our role in the cosmic scheme

— Luke Dunn, England
December 23, 1999 (off Amazon.com)

ISBN 1-930235-23-6
$19.95 U.S.
6" x 9" trade paperback
284 pages
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