Near future. Once again, the corporate machinations of Dryco threaten our history. Winner of the 1994 Philip K.Dick Memorial Award (tied for first place with Growing Up Weightless by John M.Ford).
"New York, 2033. A rebellious populace flocks to join the C of E -- Church of Elvis. The Elvii have already formed schismatic groups: among them the Hosts of Memphis and the Shaken, Rattled and Rolled. Global corporation Dryco send their operative, Iz, back to 1954 to bring Elvis home to his adoring millions. But the America she finds is strangely altered, and so too is the King. At the Presley home Elvis -- nineteen, acned, never recorded -- stands over the blood-spattered body of his ma..." [jacket blurb, UK pbk, 1993]
"Nazi flying saucers over an alternate 1950s Memphis, your basic cross-time godhead-abduction of Elvis Presley, and what must surely be one of the flat-out weirdest Fisher King inversions yet perpetrated in American literature. Achingly sad, downright alarmingly funny, and just about as serious as any of us can afford to be, Elvissey is one jarringly potent kick in the head. I can only urge you to put yours cleanly in its way." --William Gibson.
"Jack Womack's bent series plays off ideas about history, language, the machinations of capitalism and belief." --Richard Kadrey (in Covert Culture Sourcebook , 1993).
Recommended.
