DESCRIPTION
"Kill your television before it kills you. A tale of addiction, invasion, and love...." Debut novel.
PRAISE FOR
"A psychedelic odyssey of love and spiritual discovery."
--Publishers Weekly
"Four hundred billion stars for Brian Charles Clark's world-heavyweight champion novel... In this hallucinatory yet grounded tale, our narrator employs a richly allusive style, half Joyce, half William Burroughs."
-- Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, review by Paul Di Filippo
"Brian Clark's romp through a world of static television screens and desert landscapes sends science crashing headlong into fiction with its highbeams on. The resulting wreckage, Splitting, is a jagged collage of delicate poetry, hip-flasked theory and high-energy prose broadcast directly from the cerebral cortex of a bisexual potassium terrorist stuggling to resist the systematic telepathic colonization of earth by hyperlingual aliens. Using a host of agents, neurotic doctors, and psychotic
drugs, the aliens are replacing our fractured, amnesiac reality with a cohesive, linear history that corrodes the human capacity to think."
-- Review of Contemporary Fiction, review by Trevor Dodge
"Brian Clark's first novel is a fever dream: a voluptuous explosion of melody and rhythm. A gender-bending ride in search of spiritual identity, Splitting revels in the regenerative power of art and language."
— Nikki Dillon, author of Scratch
--Publishers Weekly
"Four hundred billion stars for Brian Charles Clark's world-heavyweight champion novel... In this hallucinatory yet grounded tale, our narrator employs a richly allusive style, half Joyce, half William Burroughs."
-- Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, review by Paul Di Filippo
"Brian Clark's romp through a world of static television screens and desert landscapes sends science crashing headlong into fiction with its highbeams on. The resulting wreckage, Splitting, is a jagged collage of delicate poetry, hip-flasked theory and high-energy prose broadcast directly from the cerebral cortex of a bisexual potassium terrorist stuggling to resist the systematic telepathic colonization of earth by hyperlingual aliens. Using a host of agents, neurotic doctors, and psychotic
drugs, the aliens are replacing our fractured, amnesiac reality with a cohesive, linear history that corrodes the human capacity to think."
-- Review of Contemporary Fiction, review by Trevor Dodge
"Brian Clark's first novel is a fever dream: a voluptuous explosion of melody and rhythm. A gender-bending ride in search of spiritual identity, Splitting revels in the regenerative power of art and language."
— Nikki Dillon, author of Scratch
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Brian Clark has been an independent literary publisher and editor, short order cook, glyphic designer, and hermetic ordealist. This is his first novel.