Return to Mark/Space
ISBN 0-8217-3286-2 (US pbk)
novel, science fiction, cyberpunk, surreal, levitation, alternative reality
Near future, Earth. Alternative physics. Suddenly everything floats upwards.
"2013 A.D. With an intolerable population crisis and impending global conflict, the human race was faced with an alternative: war and destruction, or moving into the next stage of psychic development.
"Then came the Great Unweighting -- a partial cancellation of gravity, destroying cities, killing countless people; but the survivors possessed strange new telekinetic powers.
"The old rules were meaningless; anarchy and violence prevailed. It was with great pain that people learned the collective unconscious was becoming conscious, and empathy meant mass suffering.
"But with all this the old prejudices survived, and men still turned to force as the answer to their problems.
"Could humanity learn to adapt... and survive?" [jacket blurb, US pbk, 1980]
"This is one hell of a weird idea". --Henry W.Targowski (in Mark/Space , 1995).
High strangeness rating.
Photo of John Shirley
(John Shirley in a punk-rock stance... courtesy of Eyeball Books)
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