Frenzetta - Softcover

Calder, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1857236831 ISBN 13: 9781857236835

Publisher: Orbit, 1998

Synopsis

The world is fragmenting; old technology litters the decaying streets; the tribes are at war. But only one thing matters to Duane Duarte - his love for Frenzetta.

Yet theirs is a love that seems to be doomed in this corrupt and disintegrating world. For Duane is a reanimated corpse and Frenzetta is a beautiful princess for whom physical love means instant death. Their only choice is to set out on the frenzied, bizarre and violent journey that will take them to the one place where they can be together...

Passionate, intense and piercingly intelligent, FRENZETTA is a brilliant and disturbing novel from a daring and innovative writer at the cutting edge of science fiction.

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Review:

In a time and place that is not quite ours, Cathay vies for supremacy with Atlantis, and humanity is being increasingly replaced, for the most part, with self- perpetuating chimeras of various strange sorts. Ratgirls, for example, die to give birth to vast litters which eat their corpses from inside--which is no fun if, like Frezetta, you happen to be a ratgirl, as well as the descendant of millennia of European aristocracy. She has a partner in crime, a walking corpse likeable save for his need for fresh human brains if he is not to rot where he stands; he used to be someone else, and at times he almost remembers who that was. Together, they race around this bizarre world somewhere sideways of us, stealing antique ceramics, defrauding rulers of City states and fighting death duels with giant robots. Somewhere amid all the horror, there is a way out, a one- way trip to the Moon, and they are looking for their fare. Calder takes the old pulp novelette form, an ideal template for loveable rogues working caper after caper, and puts his own perverse spin on it; Frenzetta is delightful sick fun. --Roz Kaveney

Review:

Dark, edgy and inflicted with just the right degree of lyricism (William Gibson)

[Calder's writing] explodes in your face like a fistful of fireworks (Paul J. McAuley)

Convincing and terrifying...exotic and brutal. (LOCUS)

In a time and place that is not quite ours, Cathay vies for supremacy with Atlantis, and humanity is being increasingly replaced, for the most part, with self- perpetuating chimeras of various strange sorts. Ratgirls, for example, die to give birth to va (Roz Kaveney, AMAZON.CO.UK REVIEW)

About this edition

• Publisher: Orbit
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 1857236831
• ISBN 13: 9781857236835
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272