{"product_id":"dreams-of-amputation-gary-j-shipley-9781739770815","title":"Dreams of Amputation","description":"\u003ci\u003eDreams of Amputation\u003c\/i\u003e reads like the nightmares Derek Raymond might have experienced if he'd written cyberpunk. An exceptionally strange work, but a smart and thoughtful one as well. Disturbing, haunting, and inimitably weird, this is a book like no other. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e- Brian Evenson \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGary J. Shipley's, \u003ci\u003eDreams of Amputation\u003c\/i\u003e, is a novel overflowing not only with ideas, but a different type of speech. From the first sentence you know you are walking into a world where you will not be led by the hand, and where even the characters will not be sure exactly what or where they are: \"He wakes in a container, head like a sawn circuit, throat rattling like a battery cage, Dock Code Report flashing tortured symbols from the wall screen: the amp's back.\" So begins what in essence serves as a story brought on in full barrage, equipped with mazes, tunnels, replicant people, goat heads, paranoia, riots, brain manipulation, new disease... Shipley moves fluidly between scenes of various styles, grafting Tarkovsky-like passages of exploration with damaged circuits of putridity and fear, sometimes not far from the clipped feel of Burroughs's \u003ci\u003eNova Express\u003c\/i\u003e. Where so many other books would get caught in one mode or another, Shipley keeps the eye inside the mind alive, spitting other eyes out of the eye itself. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e- Blake Butler in VICE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gary J. Shipley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1739770811\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781739770815\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Erratum Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/04\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.51d","brand":"Gary J. Shipley","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48176157589759,"sku":"9781739770815","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_35de68b6-c21c-4ef1-b6d8-1ccafb85a0f9.jpg?v=1771336738","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/dreams-of-amputation-gary-j-shipley-9781739770815","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}