Rogue Cells / Carbon Harbour (The Chaos! Quincunx, 2) - Softcover

Morse, Garry Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0889227764 ISBN 13: 9780889227767

Publisher: Talonbooks, 2013

Synopsis

Rogue Cells / Carbon Harbour resumes The Chaos! Quincunx novel series and presents two ironically dystopic visions of the speculative future.

In Rogue Cells, Oober Mann emerges from his cryobed on high alert in New Haudenosaunee, a "First" nation at war with the mysterious territory Nutella. It is a critical election year when citizens live in dread of celebrities who carry out terrorist actions in defense of their own fundamentalist belief systems. Mixed up in an assassination plot under investigation by ISM (Insurgent Saddo Management) and DNA-specialist cops, Mann begins to wonder about not only the nature of reality but also the new woman in his life, a femme fatale known only as The Librarian.

It is the Age of Aquarium in the speculative "green" dystopia of Carbon Harbour. Omni-magnate Cornelius Quartz is overseeing the merger between Bildung Endustries and Foreign Objects despite numerous distractions: a double wedding for himself and his daughter is imminent; he is about to lose his best promoter and lover to his rival Zirconium Bluff; and working conditions are terrible in the rehashing core and on the wind pharms for hardlucks. There bio-material is harvested to produce architecture, clothing, and other swag for a luxury class of hardcore gamers (they pay for "pollution fantasies" with carbon credits while on extended getaways to Putridworld).

Garry Thomas Morse is the author of six books, including Discovery Passages, which was nominated for the Governor General's Award and the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. Morse is also recipient of the 2008 Vancouver Mayor's Arts Award for Emerging Artist.

About this title

About the Author:

Garry Thomas Morse is the author of four books of poetry: Transversals for Orpheus (2006), Streams (2007), After Jack (2012), and Discovery Passages (2011) about his ancestral Kwakwaka'wakw First Nation, finalist for the Governor General's Award for Poetry and finalist for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. Discovery Passages was also voted One of the Top Ten Poetry Collections of 2011 by The Globe and Mail and One of the Best Ten Aboriginal Books from the past decade by CBC's 8th Fire.

Morse's work continues to appear in a variety of publications and is studied at various Canadian universities, including UBC. He is the recipient of the 2008 City of Vancouver Mayor's Arts Award for Emerging Artist and has twice been selected as runner-up for the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry. He currently resides in Regina, Saskatchewan.

Along with Morse's first collection of stories Death in Vancouver, his genrebusting fiction series The Chaos! Quincunx includes the ReLit Award nominated Minor Episodes / Major Ruckus, Rogue Cells / Carbon Harbour, and the forthcoming Minor Expectations.

Review:

"A vision of life with the liminal and the interstitial excised; our lives if we lived inside the current media representation of our lives ... hilarious and bizarre ..."
- subTerrain

"Of contemporary surrealist writers, Garry Thomas Morse is the most uncompromising. He courageously severs the umbilical cord with so-called reality and ventures into an invented world paradoxically more real than our own."
- Barry Webster, author of The Lava in My Bones

"An outrageous romp - wickedly inventive, clever as well as wise, deliciously satirical and steamier than sex and vegetables. Crackling with neologisms, sly elisions and provocative infelicities ..."
- Des Kennedy, author of Climbing Patrick's Mountain

"There is no escape clause as we pursue the Ignoble Prize during a dystopian eco-meltdown, replete with alien life-forms, brazen mineral exploitation, extreme bio-harvesting, and luxuriously decadent contamination junkies, hustling us through a disintegration dance, during the Age of Aquarium. Unrepentant and unremitting pandemonium! An outrageous tour de farce! Read it! Be moved by Morse!"
- Karl Jirgens, Rampike Magazine

About this edition

• Publisher: Talonbooks
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0889227764
• ISBN 13: 9780889227767
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 448