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What if the world doesn't end?
The year is 8007 AM and humanity is still struggling. Earth is ruled by an iron-fisted religion. All traces of drugs and alcohol are long obliterated, while history is considered a taboo subject referred to only as The Void.
Meet Hubresh (a.k.a. the Humanoid) and Vladesh (a.k.a.Vlad the Inhaler), two sub-social irregulars lodged at the Heatley Block Boarding House in the bowels of metropolitan al Vancouverael. When these misfits discover an ancient vault full of long forgotten chemicals, they uncover secrets from other worlds and stumble onto a journey of mythic proportions. Follow them as they trip through the Omniverse, unwittingly stranded for periods of time in nether-worlds that range from fantastically strange to terribly real. Join them and a motley cast of characters who populate these dimensions of infinite possibility. But watch out, for these worlds are rife with predators and villains, such as feral Blue Mundee, wicked Monkey King, and the Inquisitor, ruthless minister of the Sharmudic code.
Told in a futuristic jargon called Jislamish, a mishmash of English, Arabic and Hebrew, HUMANOID looks back through thousands of years at a world gone horribly wrong. Novelist Miguel Burr has crafted a believably absurd future while painting a timeless portrait of desperate people caught between authority and vice. The result is an open invitation for readers to experience shock-inducing social satire of the blackest comedic order.
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Destined for Controversy and Greatness!
I read the print version of this book, which is well on its way to becoming a collector's item of the rarest kind, and I am compelled to make a few statements about it. First of all, this book is one of the most unique novels I've ever encountered. In short, the descriptive elements are evocative of a kaleidoscope held up to the sun. The narrative scheme is unlike anything I've ever come across, with a single, dynamic character assuming the voice of so many others, creating in effect, a unique, limited third person-first person viewpoint, like a voice echoing off the walls of the narrator's inner world and reverberating into your own mind.
To be more specific, HUMANOID opens with the linguistic lock-groove of Burgess's A Clockwork Orange and the dystopianism of Orwell's 1984 or Atwood's Handmaid's Tale, crosses it with the epic comedy of Don Quixote, and then dynamically morphs into a futuristic retelling of the ancient Chinese epic Journey to the West, all of it propelled through Faulkneresque stream of consciousness narration, loaded with Philip K. Dick-ian paranoia, set aflame like the panicked chaos of a Hunter S. Thomson report, and seasoned with literary poesy a'la Kerouac. Ultimately, this crazy mishmash coalesces to synthesize a completely original literary form. How long has it been since you've experienced that?
Furthermore, it's almost as if this book is the first that was specifically written to be read on a portable electronic device (i.e. Kindle). I don't want to spoil anything for you, but you'll know what I'm talking about when you look down and realize that what you're holding in your hand is actually a P-Tab (that's Jislamish slang for Protonic Tablet!) WTF! We are talkin' very weird, good-times!
Finally, it needs to be said that it's about time someone has written a thoroughly entertaining work that manages to skewer all three of the major world religions equally, (you know the big three I'm talkin' about -- the ones that have completely wrecked our world today like an underwater oil-spill, bogging us all down with conflict and horribly judgmental, punitive social constraints-- i.e. the Prison Industrial Complex! -- Hell yes I'm angry!) After reading HUMANOID, I feel more than ever that it's time to abandon those moldy old ways for a new age of Radical Humanism, and author Miguel Burr knows it! His book is a subtle, artful attempt to shift the dominant paradigms that are ruining the world for all the individual lovers of life!
Okay, I've gone on enough. You can tell how strongly I feel about this book from the above comments. Now you read it and be the judge! 'Nuff said!
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