The Ultraviolet Catastrophe: A Culturepreneurial Horror (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781806950720)

A head-trip through capitalism's final frontier.

Legal-high addict, gaming enthusiast, and principal shareholder of AstroLabs(TM), Lex Rameses, has recently discovered--and purchased--Proserpina: a planet with a near-identical ecosystem to Earth's. Yet, although his humanistic, hipster pretensions mean that many people admire him, there is still one thing standing in the way of his space-colonization program: as of yet, there is no way to travel to Proserpina safely. Enter a cast of mad scientists, Astro-Marxists, a neurorobotic AI hivemind, an extinction anxiety addict, the victims of an interrelated crypto-currency gaming scam, and a seemingly endless succession of ravers and gamers in search of the ultimate hallucinogenic, carcinogenic, neü-space-age high...

Author: Susan Finlay
ISBN-10: 1806950723
ISBN-13: 9781806950720
Publisher: Zer0 Books
Language: English
Published: 07/07/2026
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 04/15/2026