news | Thursday October 31, 2013

Rogue Cells / Carbon Harbour Has Arrived!

Rogue Cells / Carbon Harbour by Garry Thomas Morse arrived today and we couldn’t be more pleased with its gorgeous cover design, which features a fragmented image taken from a Umberto Boccioni painting titled Visioni simultanee (1912).

Rogue Cells follows the misadventures of Oober Mann, who, in the novel’s opening, emerges from his cryobed on high alert in New Haudenosaunee, a nation at war with the mysterious territory Nutella during a critical election year. It is the Age of Aquarium in the speculative “green” dystopia of Carbon Harbour. Omni-magnate Cornelius Quartz is overseeing the merger between Bildung Endustries and Foreign Objects, but is distracted by an imminent double wedding for himself and his daughter.

The two novels or “nodes” are the third and fourth instalments in Morse’s The Chaos! Quincunx series; the novels parody various writing styles and literary genres, including surrealist prose, speculative fiction, environmental dystopia, historical narrative, and the most prurient bodice-rippers.

Morse has several events scheduled this fall and into next spring in which he will read from and talk about Rogue Cells / Carbon Harbour (and perhaps even rip his bodice). Check our upcoming events page for more information.