ISBN 1-882633-15-6 (US pbk)

"In the atrocity theme park called America, cannibalism isn't just another ride.

"Take a journey with the ill-fated Donner Party in nineteenth-century Nevada, the U.S. government illicit-radiation conspirators in twentieth-century Washington State, and Krystal Silikon whose head is filled with tek bugs in twenty-first-century low orbit..." [jacket blurb, US pbk, 1996]

"This book is proof that there are pleasures of the mind. Born out of an unholy alliance between the elements of that former division known as 'high and low culture', out of the marriage between Thomas Pynchon and Philip K.Dick, Lance Olsen's Time Famine joins experimental writing at its liveliest with a deep political awareness. Such a combination, rare and necessary in our culture at this time, heralds the way for novel writers who no longer want to dwell in the realms of the minimalism and egocentricity of what has been called 'American realism'." --Kathy Acker.

"Lance Olsen is a twenty-first-century samurai Dante dressed in chrome chains, neoprene bodysuit and PVC boots and gauntlets, bearing a tattered map of unexplored dimensions of folly and misery, and armed to the teeth with the latest in literary weaponry." --Paul Di Filippo.

"In Lance Olsen's Time Famine life is a chronic televisual habit, a non-reality of fake memories conjured up by the media's incessant reinterpretation of past and present, a chronomutational flux where everything feels taped ... Time Famine is a feast." --Richard Calder.

"In Time Famine , Olsen's smooth prose crafts a delightful, multilayered study of cannibalism and its discontents which works on several levels, from adventure story to metafiction. His work is well salted with references to our favorite cyberpunk writers and has a questioning-of-reality voice that resembles (and occasionally rivals) Dick and Pynchon." --Don Webb (in Nova Express , Volume 4, Number 3, Summer 1997).

• Books by Lance Olsen

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

Excerpt from Time Famine
(chapter 11 from the book... courtesy of Permeable Press)

Review of Lance Olsen's Time Famine by Don Webb
(in Nova Express , Volume 4, Number 3, Summer 1997, e-mail: lawrence@bga.com)

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

To contact Lance Olsen himself:

e-mail:
lolsen@uidaho.edu