Dr. Identity (The Scikungfi Trilogy)

For a professor at Corndog University it's quite acceptable to purchase a robotic dopplegänger and have it teach your classes for you. But how does it reflect on your teaching skills when your dopplegänger murders the whole class? Follow the Dystopian Duo (Dr. Blah Blah Blah and his robot Dr. Identity) on a killing spree of epic proportions through the irreal postapocalyptic city of Bliptown where time ticks sideways, artificial Bug-Eyed Monsters punish citizens for consumer-capitalist lethargy, and ultraviolence is as essential as a daily multivitamin.

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"Let's dispense with the usual predictable analogies ("Kafka/Cronenberg-on-laughing-gas"), redundancies ("Phillip K. Dick/William Gibson-on-acid"), or accurate-but-somewhat-obscure references ("the most intense and, in a certain sense, the most significant young prose writer since Mark Leyner and Ben Marcus . . . establishes Wilson as the Steve Katz of the post-everything generation . . . vies with Derek Pell's The Little Red Book of Adobe Live Motion for being the funniest book of the new millennium"), and cut to the chase: D Harlan Wilson's hilarious meta-pulp SF novel, Dr. Identity, is a funhouse mirror whose cartoonish distortions continually amaze and amuse--until one realizes that what we¹re seeing is a disturbingly accurate vision of ourselves. An instant avant-pop classic by a major new talent. Two surgically-enhanced, stainless-steel thumbs way, way up!" Larry McCaffery, editor of Storming the Reality Studio and After Yesterday's Crash "A blur-fast caper through a mediated nightmare future which will thankfully be prevented by a series of massive natural and man-made disasters." Steve Aylett, author of Slaughtermatic and Novahead "Dr. Identity is a rollicking romp through a future so absurd, it can't help but feel real. D. Harlan Wilson shows us everything we know--but wish we didn't--about ourselves." Robert Venditti, writer of The Surrogates and Demon Knights

About the Author

D. Harlan Wilson is an award-winning, critically acclaimed novelist, short story writer, editor, literary critic, and Professor of English at Wright State University-Lake Campus. In addition to numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, hundreds of his stories and essays have appeared in magazines, journals and anthologies throughout the world in multiple languages. Wilson serves as reviews editor of the academic science fiction journal Extrapolation and managing editor of Guide Dog Books, the nonfiction syndicate of Raw Dog Screaming Press. For more information, visit DHarlanWilson.com and TheKyotoMan.com.

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