Author Mark von Schlegell

MERCURY STATION

When
Sat Mar 21, 2009
Where
Borderlands Books
Time
3pm
Tags
Literary Arts
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When Mark von Schlegell first visited Borderlands in 2005, the response to his novel VENUSIA was overwhelming. Now Mark is back with a brand-new book! From MIT Press: "Published by Semiotext(e) in 2005, Mark von Schlegell's debut novel VENUSIA was hailed in the sci-fi and literary worlds as a "breathtaking excursion" and "heady kaleidoscopic trip," establishing him as an important practitioner of vanguard science fiction. MERCURY STATION, the second book in Von Schlegell's System Series, continues the journey into a dystopian literary future. It is 2150. Eddard J. Ryan was born in a laboratory off Luna City, an orphan raised by the Black Rose Army, a radical post-Earth Irish revolutionary movement. But his first bombing went wrong and he's been stuck in a borstal on Mercury for decades. System Space has collapsed and most of human civilization with it, but Eddie Ryan and his fellow prisoners continue to suffer the remote-control domination of the borstal...

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  1. Borderlands Books
    866 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA