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Once and Future Cities

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Allen Ashley's tales of Urban Fantasy are intensely surreal, savagely satirical, subtly subversive and despairingly funny. Possessed of a unique vision and a distinctive prose style, Allen Ashley exposes the absurdities of modern British society like no other writer. Every waking moment is a struggle for continued sanity and survival as we muddle thoughtlessly through this surrealist joke called civilisation. The challenges - factual, fictitious, mythical, eminently plausible - just keep on coming. Ashley demonstrates that, if you have the nose for it, apocalypse can be smelled everywhere - in the latest media circus; in the latest dubious laws or government measures; in celebrity culture or the surveillance state; in the mindsets and prejudices of the population and in the tiniest actions we all perform.

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  • Language:
  • English
  • ISBN:
  • 9780955526886
  • Binding:
  • Hardback
  • Pages:
  • 426
  • Published:
  • July 31, 2009
  • Dimensions:
  • 152x229x26 mm.
  • Weight:
  • 778 g.
Delivery: 2-3 weeks
Expected delivery: December 12, 2024

Description of Once and Future Cities

Allen Ashley's tales of Urban Fantasy are
intensely surreal, savagely satirical, subtly
subversive and despairingly funny. Possessed
of a unique vision and a distinctive prose
style, Allen Ashley exposes the absurdities of
modern British society like no other writer.
Every waking moment is a struggle for
continued sanity and survival as we muddle
thoughtlessly through this surrealist joke
called civilisation. The challenges - factual,
fictitious, mythical, eminently plausible -
just keep on coming. Ashley demonstrates
that, if you have the nose for it, apocalypse
can be smelled everywhere - in the latest
media circus; in the latest dubious laws or
government measures; in celebrity culture
or the surveillance state; in the mindsets and
prejudices of the population and in the tiniest
actions we all perform.

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