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RED SPIDER WHITE WEB sf novel by Misha Nogha 1-877655-29-5, (29-WC) first trade edition, 236 pgs, 1999. $12, plus s/h (U.S. only) introduction to new edition by John Shirley foreword by Brian Aldiss postscript by James P. Blaylock cover art by the joey Zone |
DESCRIPTION
#20 in the Wordcraft of Oregon Speculative Writers Series. First U.S. trade paper edition of Morrigan Publications hardcover edition.. FINALIST FOR THE ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD FOR FIRST SF NOVEL.
PRAISE FOR RED SPIDER WHITE WEB
Misha Nogha’s Red Spider White Web is arguably the definitive feminist cyberpunk text, a searing work that crashes upon the reader like a catastrophe.
– Alan DeNiro, Rain Taxi Online Edition, Fall 2003
Misha's Red Spider White Web is, quite simply, everything cyberpunk should have been but wasn't, everything contemporary techno-dystopias should be but aren't. Instead of middle-class white men struggling with their love-hate relationships with dangerous but beautiful cybertoys, Misha offers society's most disenfranchised victims struggling for survival against the technotopic juggernaut. Instead of cyberpunk's typical anti-heroic misogynist-nerd, she gives us a feral female artist struggling to create something meaningful and lasting in a world established to destroy and dispose of her. The book is bleak, intense, and more accurate in its critique of contemporary U.S. culture's cruelty and ignorance
than any book I have ever read.
- Dr. Elyce Helford, Editor/Author, Enterprise Zones
Misha's importance and distinctiveness are beginning to be noticed, there's beginning to be some kind of rip-tide here that will soon become a wave of recognition for a book that the world is beginning to catch up to... We weren't ready before. We'd better be ready now. Because it's the 21st century, any minute now, and that means that Misha's time has come. In more ways than one.
— John Shirley
We belong to an age where apocalypse is our daily bread, coffee's black, and we know we're part of the abyss. Red Spider White Web is right on target in conveying that understanding. It splinters in the mind... the underworld of the century's imaginings.
— Brian Aldiss
Red Spider White Web is startlingly visual... Its pages reveal a series of starkly painted images that go to work on your mind like the pictures on a tarot deck.
— James Blaylock
– Alan DeNiro, Rain Taxi Online Edition, Fall 2003
Misha's Red Spider White Web is, quite simply, everything cyberpunk should have been but wasn't, everything contemporary techno-dystopias should be but aren't. Instead of middle-class white men struggling with their love-hate relationships with dangerous but beautiful cybertoys, Misha offers society's most disenfranchised victims struggling for survival against the technotopic juggernaut. Instead of cyberpunk's typical anti-heroic misogynist-nerd, she gives us a feral female artist struggling to create something meaningful and lasting in a world established to destroy and dispose of her. The book is bleak, intense, and more accurate in its critique of contemporary U.S. culture's cruelty and ignorance
than any book I have ever read.
- Dr. Elyce Helford, Editor/Author, Enterprise Zones
Misha's importance and distinctiveness are beginning to be noticed, there's beginning to be some kind of rip-tide here that will soon become a wave of recognition for a book that the world is beginning to catch up to... We weren't ready before. We'd better be ready now. Because it's the 21st century, any minute now, and that means that Misha's time has come. In more ways than one.
— John Shirley
We belong to an age where apocalypse is our daily bread, coffee's black, and we know we're part of the abyss. Red Spider White Web is right on target in conveying that understanding. It splinters in the mind... the underworld of the century's imaginings.
— Brian Aldiss
Red Spider White Web is startlingly visual... Its pages reveal a series of starkly painted images that go to work on your mind like the pictures on a tarot deck.
— James Blaylock
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
For more information on Misha Nogha, visit her website at www.mishanogha.com