Quirky Sci-Punk-Fiction
Explore a handpicked list of quirky sci-punk fiction books—wild, imaginative tales blending punk edge with sci-fi weirdness. Discover your next offbeat read!
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Fractal Paisleys
by Paul Di Filippo
Ten funny, off-the-wall tales--examples of what the author calls his "trailer park science fiction"--reveal the real reason for the dinosaurs' disappearance and explain the appearance …
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Gnarl!
by Rudy Rucker
Though he is also a mathematician, computer scientist, and essayist, Rudy Rucker is best known for his ground-breaking science fiction. The companion volume to Seek!, …
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Amnesiascope
by Steve Erickson
A portrait of early-twenty-first-century Los Angeles and an American asylum is seen from the perspective of a narrator who lives on the edge of reality …
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Cobralingus
by Jeff Noon
This novel traces the conception of cobralingus, a way of changing language to a mutated, liquid state that can then be transformed into something entirely …
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Ambient
by Jack Womack
Combining the nightmarish vision of J. G. Ballard and the linguistic brilliance of Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange, Ambient is Jack Womack's stunning first novel. …
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Gun, With Occasional Music
by Jonathan Lethem
Twenty-first-century private detective Conrad Metcalf has a dead doctor on his hands, a monkey on his back, and a kangaroo in his waiting room in …
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The Dogs of Winter
by Kem Nunn
Jack Fletcher is hired to take pictures of a dangerous, premier mysto surf spot off the Pacific Northwest. But disaster soon strikes when an Indian …
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Cities of the Red Night
by William S. Burroughs
Clem Snide, a private detective, has to solve a case of ritual murder. In the Gobi Desert 100,000 years ago, a red virus has erupted. …
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Writing on Drugs
by Sadie Plant
The author explores the intimate and often fruitful relationship between drugs--narcotics, stimulants, and hallucinogens--and the quest for knowledge by focusing on the writers who used …