By Katherine Dunn
ISBN-10: 0307794482
ISBN-13: 9780307794482
EISBN-13: 978-0-307-79448-2
Geek Love is the tale of the Binewskis, a carny relatives whose mater- and paterfamilias set out–with the aid of amphetamine, arsenic, and radioisotopes–to breed their very own show of human oddities. There’s Arturo the Aquaboy, who has flippers for limbs and a megalomaniac ambition important of Genghis Khan . . . Iphy and Elly, the lissome Siamese twins . . . albino hunchback Oly, and the outwardly common Chick, whose mysterious presents make him the family’s so much precious–and dangerous–asset.
As the Binewskis take their act around the backwaters of the united states, inspiring fanatical devotion and murderous revulsion; as its individuals behavior their very own Machiavellian model of sibling competition, Geek Love throws its sulfurous mild on our notions of the freakish and the traditional, the gorgeous and the gruesome, the holy and the obscene. kin values will not be an analogous.
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Earth tremor? No, just the current. She aimed down at one of the whelks and fired. The harpoon chopped into its shell and the airbags expanded. Trailing a cloud of yellow ichor the creature rose to the surface with its tentacles clenched up inside it, the nerve agent having done its work. Erlin rose with it and swam quickly ashore, towing it behind by the harpoon’s monofilament. After detaching the harpoon’s barb, she rolled the creature through the shallows to the beach. A momentary pang of guilt touched her, but she dismissed it.
But then the leeches started moving inside his carapace again and, hissing like a leaky air compressor, he lurched onwards. The chamber he sought was open. Here a Prador second-child—one of Well’s own siblings—lay in the corner with all its legs folded underneath it. Vrell prodded it with a claw and it moved sluggishly. ‘Attend me,’ he hissed in the Prador tongue. Suddenly the youngster was up on its legs and brandishing its claws threateningly. ’ it bubbled. Knowledge, long ignored as irrelevant during Vrell’s enslavement to his father’s pheromones, suddenly became relevant.
Yes,’ Janer agreed, ‘Spatterjay has become a big attraction for Polity citizens. We live in an age when you can choose your route to eternal youth, and some of those choices become quite esoteric’ Janer mulled that over. In the Polity, that political unit ruled by artificial intelligences and now spread across a considerable portion of the galaxy, death could quite often just be a matter of choice. ’ he added. He studied the circular leech scar on the back of his hand through which he had been infected with the Spatterjay virus.
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