First Contact

FIRST CONTACT IS AN AUDACIOUS EXPERIMENT, AND AN ATTEMPT TO IMAGINE A NEW TYPE OF NARRATIVE. It is a sprawling, multidimensional text spanning centuries, continents and subcultures, unravelling coincidences and conspiracies, computer viruses, and viruses which infect your mind. It is a kaleidoscope of revolutions and counter revolutions, football hooligans and Satanists, mutants and mutilations. Through drugs, drums and dreams, the interface is breached, and the message downloaded, and interpreted. The crew of the Mnemosyne detect a mysterious transmission, originating from a hostile planet. Meanwhile, but not meantime, a group of boys living in a sleepy Australian town realize that they are not ordinary kids, but actually deepcover agents from another galaxy. Intergalactic war is summoning them back home. It seems like pop superstar Michael Jackson is also heading their way!

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First Contact is a short story and novella collection dating from 1989 to 2001. It is written in the style of a postmodern "pastiche": a work of art that imitates or borrows elements from a variety of different sources, in order to create a unique style or subvert the original meaning, make connections, and open a textual dialogue. Similarities to real people, places or events are entirely coincidental LOL!

Table of Contents

1. Detina (New Kid in Town/Awakening/Vital Statistics/Nocturnal Sun/Flight of the Nocturnal Sun) (1989)
2. Harmony in the Extremes (1989)
3. Prison Planet (The Age of Dystopia/Scouring Two Galaxies/The Professor/Poles Apart) (1990)
4. Liberation (Hedione #5 Edit) (1991)
5. Interface (1991)
6. Burn! (1993)
7. 1 for 1,000,000 (Suicide Blonde Edit) (1992)
8. The Star Who Fell to Earth (Orgasmic Ectoplasmic Edit) (1993)
9. Cheek 2 Cheek (1994)
10. Pilgrims, or The Coming Together of Buda and Pest (1995)
11. Warpdrive (Ruff Kut Bizness Edit) (1995)
12. The Green Man (Stanley Ipkiss Unlimited Edit) (1996)
13. Bäby Doc and the Dentist (1995)
14. Michael Jackson's 50th Birthday Party (1996)
15. Musk (Jose Garcia Edit) (1996)
16. A Pasty-Faced Man in a Pinstripe (1998)
17. Warpdrive (Finger Licking Good Edit) (2002)
18. The Green Man (Zygotic Gametic Edit) (1996)
19. The Lust for Rust (1997)
20. The Fall of Khazad-Dûm (1997)
21. First Contact (2001)
22. Musk (Eye Test Edit) (2001)

FIRST CONTACT (c)opyright Rob Sullivan 1988-2024. Contact the author for all your criticisms and feedbacks.

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