ISBN 1-882633-04-0 (US pbk)

"So you want to be a rock 'n' roll star? In a future that isn't distant enough, you'll have to sell your soul to MTV just to pick up a guitar. And then they start carving you up, making you over in the mega-media image of glitter and bone.

"Poor Ben Tendo, he just wanted to play music and make love to Jessika..." [jacket blurb, US pbk, 1994]

"Lance Olsen's Tonguing the Zeitgeist is pure dope -- some of the wildest, darkest and hippest head candy you could ever imagine tasting! His addictive prose style is like taking a hit of ecstasy and entering a futureworld that rivals Gibson's Neuromancer . I dare you to read it." --Mark Amerika.

"Lance Olsen writes as if he were Lucifer taking the long plummet to Hell. His prose lights the sky with mocking laughter and burning conviction." --Lewis Shiner.

"Avant-Pop Prof Lance Olsen's Tonguing The Zeitgeist is one of the new breed of savvy, post-cyberpunk SF novels that should alert all those grunge-weary members of the underground that there's weird, wired, and wild quality stuff coming from the Pacific Northwest these days other than remastered Hendrix or Nirvana's latest. Two thumbs up!" --Larry McCaffery.

"Tonguing the Zeitgeist is an expressionistic piece of razzle-dazzle, the plot providing Olsen with an armature on which to hang his sizzling prose and pin-sharp-punchy dialogue..." --Richard Calder (in SF Eye , Issue #14, Spring 1996)

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

Tonguing the Zeitgeist
(book info)

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

To contact Lance Olsen himself:

e-mail:
lolsen@uidaho.edu