ISBN 0-312-09776-X (US pbk)

"Nothing interesting ever happens at the center. Everything interesting is out at the edges. Sparks kick up when opposing edges meet. Sometimes hot edges fuse, creating something wild and new -- the birth of a hopeful monster. That's covert culture.

"Covert Culture Sourcebook is a guide to the best and weirdest alternative music, books, videos, zines, fashions, software, technology, and 'tools for living'; it features commentary, reviews, and descriptions and provides contact names and addresses. It's a starter kit, a sort of treasure map where X doesn't mark the spot, but a thousand Xs mark a thousand spots.

"Listings include techno-feminist manifestos, Australian Aboriginal pop albums, trailers for teen exploitation flicks, toxic waste radiation suits, magazines devoted to body piercing, countersurveillance equipment, smart foods, mail-order sex toys, 'brain tuners', cyberpunk novels, and hundreds of other strange, intriguing, and just plain cool artifacts and items". [jacket blurb, US pbk, 1993]

"If this isn't already a 'net' site, then it should be." --Henry W.Targowski (in Mark/Space , 1995).

Recommended.

Kadrey
(for a complete online text of his novel Metrophage ... plus other writings)

To reach Richard Kadrey himself:

e-mail:
kadrey@well.com