Cover photograph
© Robert Standish
ABOUT
THE AUTHOR:
Mike
Philbin (born 1966 in St Helens, Merseyside) is an artist, editor and author
residing in Oxford in the United Kingdom. He spent the late 1980s and early
1990s exhibiting his brand of psycho-realist paintings in one-man shows
in St Helens, Liverpool and London.
Philbin's
'genreclectic' novel-writing career began in 1989 when Creation Books published
his psycho-erotic novel Red Hedz (under the pseudonym Michael Paul Peter).
Since then he has had five novels published in the independent press and
has worked with many other collaboration-friendly writers.
According
to a Philbin-penned spoof science article in issue 14 of Dementia 13 Magazine,
the Hertzan Chimera Unit is a fundamental particle (equivalent to a free
neutron) that predicts that gravity is the driving force in the universe
via something called Universal Equilibrium. Light travels backwards towards
the source as U.E. fills in, and matter is the true repulsive force. For
the last fifteen years since the Dementia 13 article, most of Philbin's
writing has been published as Hertzan Chimera.
Philbin
is the editor of the Chimeraworld anthology, an advocate of collaborative
fiction and the death of genre.
For
more information, please visit: http://www.mikephilbin.com
S I L V E R
T H O U G H T P R E S S
independent publisher of speculative fiction
BUKKAKEWORLD
variations on a vile and dismal theme
by
Mike Philbin
[read
excerpt]
When
you’re drowning in the corporate world, you’ll need a mentor to
keep you from going under.
Bukkakeworld
is the conscious evolution of the staid three-act narrative horror genre.
It’s a book about YOU, the corporate lackey, the indentured, the subordinate.
Stuck in a job you cannot stomach, under a manager you want to annihilate,
in a corporation that wants to grind you into nothing more than human grease
to lubricate its inhuman profit-making machine.
You are
not alone. There are literally millions of you all over the world, the true
Samaritans of contemporary democracy. You take it in the face every working
day of your life. There seems to be no respite from your suffering, no reward
for your hardship. But even in the depths of your drowning desperation, there
is a light, a tiny light, beaming out to save you.
She looks
nothing like you. She is clean and tidy. The constant drizzle that rots everything
it touches doesn’t seem to settle on her. She has a light in her eyes,
like a terrorist bomb exploding very, very slowly. Frame by frame, a new star
blooming. She is your corporate messiah. But who is her little furry companion,
Kitten? And what of the sinister chrome-like Glimpsers? How do they tie in
to a swirling narrative that drags you through a death camp of corporate revelation?
Bukkakeworld
is a savage indictment of the corporate mentality, a challenging, twisted
book that assails the underpinnings of modern society and does so much more
than spit in your face.
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BUKKAKEWORLD
by
Mike Philbin
Publisher: Silverthought
Press
ISBN-10: 0-9815191-3-X
ISBN-13: 978-0-9815191-3-5
172 pages
paperback: $13.99
$14.99 + S/H
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