1/ I finished re-reading The Texts of Festival (Mick Farren, 1973) two hours after (nominal) bedtime last night.https://twitter.com/sonyasupposedly/status/1292560973065154564 …
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2/ It's pretty wild - prefigures The Road Warrior by a decade. Kinda even prefigures Thunderdome. Only this morning did I realize that the whole thing was not just a post apocalyptic SF novel, but a thematic retelling of the Altamont festival riothttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altamont_Free_Concert …
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3/ ...and an elegy for the 1960s. Hell, the book even had elegies in it, almost tipping its hand. Pretty meta.pic.twitter.com/XIQbKm6O8C
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A decently crafted, depressing little novella that - when it's not delving into exploitation (or is it less exploitation than an honest acknowledgement of Hobessian "nasty, brutal, and short") - worth reading and worth remembering.
Recommended-ish.
cc @JohnBarnesSF
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