ISBN 1-877655-20-1 (US pbk)

"Murph Porter, an avant-prof at Central Kentucky University, is getting really sick and tired of reading bad student prose.

"He goes just a bit over the top trying to educate his charges in this comic eco-novel about murder, mayhem, and that late-millennial search for the perfect bottle of water.

"Academentia was never this much fun." [publisher's blurb, 1996]

"Olsen blends elements of chaos theory, deconstruction, and more in a humorous novel that is part environmental dystopia, part academic farce... Tempered by the tender love of Murph and Tanya, by a subtly frightening vision of ecological degradation, and most of all, by true wit, he's offered a funny cautionary tale." -- (in Publishers Weekly , 1996).

Avant-Pop Central Page
(site maintained by Lance Olsen... contains brief bio, links to his books, articles, essays, interviews... Java enhanced)

Burnt
(Lance Olsen's entry on Burnt )

In Memoriam to Post-Modernism
('postmodern' and 'avant-pop')

To contact Lance Olsen himself:

e-mail:
lolsen@uidaho.edu