BENEATH THE PLEASURE ZONES -THE RUPTURE
by Paul Green
Now available from Mandrake of Oxford
Paul Green’s latest novel takes fantasy fiction into new zones, exploring a near-future Britain in which our everyday reality-consensus has been ruptured by the Qliphothic Forces of the Polyverse.
Londoners escape into the virtual-reality thrills of Pleasure Centres plc, while Borderland villages embrace wild neo-pagan rites. Meanwhile Fundamentalist militias – Mo-Boys and Heavy Shepherds – battle for overall control.
In the Borderlands, poet Lucas works desperate magick to win back his ex-lover Carla, now a producer of virtual erotica. In London traumatised ex-MOD computer wizard Dr Crowe also finds work with Pleasure Centres. Its CEO has a manic plan for restoring the status quo by using Crowe’s cyber-skills to manipulate the ancient forces of the Borderlands. However, no-one anticipates the emergence of rogue cyber-daemons - the Quantum Brothers - or the horrors of the Feast of Smoke.
This first volume of Paul Green’s new fiction sequence ends with a bizarre and terrifying climax that defines the world of the forthcoming sequel - BENEATH THE PLEASURE ZONES – The Polyverse...
‘Green has confirmed his position as master of the jocular-horror story... a superb satire... Transgressional sexuality and a profound knowledge of the byways of pagan and magical thinking are integrated with an awareness both of current political trends and new technologies.’ (Tim Pendry)
The book is being launched at the Reality Street Live event at the Electric Palace, Old Town, Hastings at 8.00 on March 19, where Paul will be appearing alongside celebrated fantasy author Christopher Priest and avant-jazz saxophonist Trevor Watts.
His other work includes a novel The Qliphoth, poetry collections The Gestaltbunker and A Beginner’s Guide to Radial City as well as plays like The Dream Laboratory, Ritual of the Stifling Air, The Mouthpiece, The Voice Collection and Babalon, his evocation of occult rocket scientist Jack Parsons. He lives in Hastings, where he works at the local University of Brighton campus.
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£9.99 ISBN 978-1-906958-58-9
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