Dead Girls was a strange and worthwhile trip, a dropkick into an unappealing future Earth circa in which capitalism, triumphantly and gaudily strutting across the global stage, has conquered all-comers. The United States is the junior partner to a Japanese-led Pacific trading bloc, while Europe, flooded with refugees from the defunct Soviet Empire, has suffered from a catastrophic market /5. Warning: Contains spoilers These three novels (Dead Girls, Dead Boys, and Dead Things) can be viewed in two ways: as a traditional trilogy, chronicling the adventures of its protagonist in a reality gone mad, or as complementary narratives which, using the same premise as a springboard, veer off in wildly different directions/5(3). · Dead Girls: Adam's review does a nice job of laying out the sources for Calder's bizarre splash of rainbow mayhem—sexual, interpersonal, technological, civilizational, political, dimensional—though the prevailing ones in the opening book of the trilogy would have to be Moorcock's Cornelius and Gibson's Neuromancer, with a splash of Nabokov /5.
ISBN: OCLC Number: Description: pages ; 21 cm: Other Titles: Dead boys. Dead things. Novels. Dead girls ; Dead boys ; Dead things. Dead Girls, Dead Boys, Dead Things|Richard Calder, Introducing Piano For The Young Beginner (Introducing (L.T.P.))|Gary Turner, The Color-guard: Being A Corporal's Notes Of Military Service In The Nineteenth Army Corps Corps (Civil War)|James Hosmer, Rick Steves' Europe Through The Back Door |Rick Steves. Calder's Dead Girls () won raves for its surrealistic vision of a twenty-first-century society threatened by lilim adolescent females transformed by a nanotechnological virus into robotic sexual predators. Still mourning the destruction of his own cherished "dead girl," Ignatz Zwakh, the former novel's narrator, returns to discover that the virus has begun infecting males, including, as.
Dead Girls, Dead Boys, Dead Things|Richard Calder, Introducing Piano For The Young Beginner (Introducing (L.T.P.))|Gary Turner, The Color-guard: Being A Corporal's Notes Of Military Service In The Nineteenth Army Corps Corps (Civil War)|James Hosmer, Rick Steves' Europe Through The Back Door |Rick Steves. Combine EditionsRichard Calder’s books. Richard Calder. Average rating: · ratings · reviews · 36 distinct works • Similar authors. Dead Girls, Dead Boys, Dead Things. avg rating — ratings — published Want to Read. saving. Want to Read. Currently Reading. Refresh and try again. Rate this book. Clear rating. 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars. Dead Girls: The Graphic Novel. by. Richard Calder, Leonardo M. Giron (art) avg rating — 8 ratings — published
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