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PRIMETIME a postcyberpunk novel by David Memmott ISBN: 978-1-877655-53-1, 1-877655-53-8 (53-WC) LCN: 2007930089 First trade paperback, 272 pages, $15 plus s/h (U.S. only) Limited supply Cover art collage: Kristin Johnson & David Memmott Images for collage: www.bigstockphoto.com Cover design: redbat design |
DESCRIPTION
If you think the world is crazy now, just wait.
Worldbenders are trained to re-invent the past. Benito Cortezar creates a perfect past only to find it haunted by forces he cannot control. A shadow at the core of Primetime threatens our very humanity. So many depend on Benito, even the dead.
At the watershed of human and posthuman, in the clash between Dreamtime and Primetime, a gaggle of fractured heroes are caught up in a struggle between those yet to come and those waiting to come back.
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Worldbenders are trained to re-invent the past. Benito Cortezar creates a perfect past only to find it haunted by forces he cannot control. A shadow at the core of Primetime threatens our very humanity. So many depend on Benito, even the dead.
At the watershed of human and posthuman, in the clash between Dreamtime and Primetime, a gaggle of fractured heroes are caught up in a struggle between those yet to come and those waiting to come back.
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PRAISE FOR TIN AN ELEVATOR WITH BRIGITTE BARDOT
Primetime gives us a future where the sun shines while mythologies and realities of the past and future collide thanks to the emerging technology. It’s a pleasure to read...Come to think of it, it also comes close to my fantasy of science fction that makes you want to get up and dance...
— Ernest Hogan, High Aztech, Cortez on Mars, Smoking Mirror Blues
This novel explores the battle between two notions of virtual reality, one meant to allow people to experience the “real”, the other opening directly onto the id and an individual’s darkest fantasies. Add in the complications of an alien presence, virtual joyriders, and different strata (and substrata) of the real (and the unreal), and you’ve got a sf novel that doubles as a philosophical meditation on the nature of human reality. Move over, Second Life: Primetime is here.
--Brian Evenson, The Open Curtain, finalist for 2006 International Horror Guild Award
Memmott is intent on examining deep epistemological and ontological issues concerning the way humanity fashions its own reality, but he embeds his questions in a captivating thriller...This is philosophic SF at its best.
-- Paul Di Filippo, "On Books," Isaac Asimov's SF Magazine, July 2008
A dizzying debut novel explores an extreme near-future that explodes into a post-cyberpunk extravaganza... Primetime is, inarguably and admirably, ambitious...and it will be interesting to see where the author goes from here.
-- F. Brett Cox, scifi.com
Memmott puts the stimulus of [Philip K.] Dick and [William] Gibson to good use, creating a story that takes the best of both and adds his own vision of the future to them, giving us characters that are original and engrossing, characters that we care about. This ability isn't common in science fiction…The point is: it's not easy to lift sci-fi to the level of literature, but Memmott has done it in brilliant fashion in Primetime.
-- Duff Brenna, Perigee: A Publication for the Arts, Issue #20, April-May, 2008
"In Primetime, David Memmott...gives us a post-cyberpunk novel that's both entertaining and thought-provoking. A world of virtual reality that is futuristic and complex [is] brought to life by dazzling description...Overall, it's heady stuff in more ways than one."
-- Bobbi Sinha-Morey, The Specusphere
— Ernest Hogan, High Aztech, Cortez on Mars, Smoking Mirror Blues
This novel explores the battle between two notions of virtual reality, one meant to allow people to experience the “real”, the other opening directly onto the id and an individual’s darkest fantasies. Add in the complications of an alien presence, virtual joyriders, and different strata (and substrata) of the real (and the unreal), and you’ve got a sf novel that doubles as a philosophical meditation on the nature of human reality. Move over, Second Life: Primetime is here.
--Brian Evenson, The Open Curtain, finalist for 2006 International Horror Guild Award
Memmott is intent on examining deep epistemological and ontological issues concerning the way humanity fashions its own reality, but he embeds his questions in a captivating thriller...This is philosophic SF at its best.
-- Paul Di Filippo, "On Books," Isaac Asimov's SF Magazine, July 2008
A dizzying debut novel explores an extreme near-future that explodes into a post-cyberpunk extravaganza... Primetime is, inarguably and admirably, ambitious...and it will be interesting to see where the author goes from here.
-- F. Brett Cox, scifi.com
Memmott puts the stimulus of [Philip K.] Dick and [William] Gibson to good use, creating a story that takes the best of both and adds his own vision of the future to them, giving us characters that are original and engrossing, characters that we care about. This ability isn't common in science fiction…The point is: it's not easy to lift sci-fi to the level of literature, but Memmott has done it in brilliant fashion in Primetime.
-- Duff Brenna, Perigee: A Publication for the Arts, Issue #20, April-May, 2008
"In Primetime, David Memmott...gives us a post-cyberpunk novel that's both entertaining and thought-provoking. A world of virtual reality that is futuristic and complex [is] brought to life by dazzling description...Overall, it's heady stuff in more ways than one."
-- Bobbi Sinha-Morey, The Specusphere
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
For more information on David Memmott, please visit his author website at www.davidmemmott.com