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Subject: Speculative Fiction / Contemporary Literature
Publisher: Ministry of Whimsy (USA)
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| trade paperback, 250pp, ISBN 1890464023, 1997
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out of print
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trade paperback, 250pp, ISBN 1890464023, 1997 (new, but with slight transit damage to cover and/or spine – ideal reading copy) |
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USA: £17.48 £11.01
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Winner of the 1997/98 Philip K. Dick Award |
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Stepan Chapman's The Troika is cornucopia with cutting edge: a vivid phantasmagoria crowded with bizarre imagery which contrives to remain heartfelt and engaging. It has style, it has wit, it has guts and it has showmanship; what more could anyone want?
Brian Stableford |
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Dali-esque in its crisp outlines, dreamtime logic, and biomorphic weirdness, Stepan Chapman has videoed The Troika through a meta-futuro-philo-comical lens ground by Italo Calvino in the turret of P.K. Dick's high -- very high -- castle. A forehead-smackingly original story-generating engine.
Lance Olsen |
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Beneath the glare of three purple suns, manipulated by unseen forces, three travelers cross an endless desert: Alex, who wanted to be a machine, Naomi the corpsicle, and Eva, who escaped the whale-emperor of her native land ...
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