Nightmare in Silicon is out.
Ymo is a girl.
Ymo gets sick.
Ymo will die.
Ymo gets turned into a robot (not a girl).
Robots don't die.
Robots don't sleep.
Robots don't dream...
Getting medical tests performed on her to pay the rent, staying up all night with her scarred and strange friends, sharing beds with her boyfriend and whoever else comes along, Ymo's is a world so infused with sex that it's become an identity. Ymo is a woman. That is, until diagnosis with a life-threatening illness leaves her no chance of survival, except in the gender-neutral body of a robot. What follows is her struggle to stay human while existing as a sexless object. Ymo's final role as guinea pig will be to answer the question "What if people didn't dream?"
"A toxic-shock torrent of bad energy and beautiful language, Colette Phair's 'Nightmare in Silicon' is recklessly brave and driven writing, brimming with fluorescent style and startling ideas. Hers is a strong, new voice that demands and deserves to be listened to."
-ALAN MOORE, author of V For Vendetta and Watchmen
"Cyberpunk is alive and well. Nightmare in Silicon is convulsively funny, hideously diseased, erotically oozing, tightly plotted, and told with a wonderfully sharp tongue."
-RUDY RUCKER, author of Software and Mathematicians in Love
"If Kathy Acker had lived long enough to have access to an iPod, Red Bull and Second Life, she might have come to sound like Colette Phair… Phair takes no prisoners in her vivid, sonorous truth-telling."
-PAUL DI FILIPPO, author of Ciphers and Ribofunk
Ordering: Amazon.com
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So the book is on Amazon now. I expect copies to appear on Amazon.co.uk and Powells.com (as well as in Powell's store) at some point too. I want to thank all of you for your interest, and if you do end up liking it, I'd appreciate it if you'd write an Amazon review or add it to a list.
I'm glad it made it out this year cause now you can 1) get it for someone for Christmas (if you celebrate that) or 2) have something to read on the plane (if you fly in those). At any rate, get ready for 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.2" and 5.1 ounces of complete mayhem.
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