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Mark von Schlegell
"Mark von Schlegell is an american/irish since fiction author based in Cologne, Germany or Los Angeles, CA. He began his career more as a cultural critic than a science fiction scr...view more"Mark von Schlegell is an american/irish since fiction author based in Cologne, Germany or Los Angeles, CA. He began his career more as a cultural critic than a science fiction scribe. His immersion into speculative fiction—and a psychedelic, intellectual one at that—for many years was a sideways element of his life. This is immediately obvious in his work, which is dogged and incredibly esoteric, a wry mix of stupid fantasy and devastating insight; although they're clearly influenced by the awe and slime of pulp paperback sci-fi novels, his are the kind of books that get published by MIT and the anarchist philosophy press Semiotext(e). His first novel, Venusia, throws the "dystopian future" paradigm out with the acid-bathwater, transcending spacetime and spacereason in a feverish gallop, telling the story of the totalitarian psycho-holographic regime of a future Venus. It's confusing, it collapses in on itself, it reaches across a broad length of fictive time, and it's narrated by a plant."
--Claire L. Evansview less