Dead Boys (novel)
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| Author | Richard Calder |
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| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Series | Dead |
| Genre | Science Fiction |
| Publisher | HarperCollins |
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Publication date
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1994 |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) |
| Pages | 199 |
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| OCLC | 32204536 |
| Preceded by | Dead Girls |
| Followed by | Dead Things |
Dead Boys is the second novel by British science fiction author Richard Calder, and was first published in 1994.
The novel is the second in Calders 'Dead' trilogy, and is preceded by the novel Dead Girls.
Dead Boys is a science fiction novel set six months after the events of Dead Girls.
Richard Calder has said that William Burroughs "gave birth" to Dead Boys.": I was certainly influenced by the New Wave...The idea, for instance, that SF could go anywhere and appropriate the stylistic and cultural concerns of writers like William Burroughs...In other words, the New Wave encouraged a belief that SF could be radical and experimental literature.
1 - STRANGE BOYS
Doll-junky Ignatz Zwakh lives in the Mut Mee guesthouse in Nong Khai. He has preserved the excised womb and matrix of his dead lover Primavera, and gets high injecting himself with Lilim junk...
The future: the dolls have evolved into the Meta: female Lilim who infect human males, and Elohim dead boys who keep the Lilim numbers under control. Elohim Inquisitor Dagon, armed with his gamekeeper gun, wants to hunt down traitoress Vanity St.Viridiana who has turned catgirl and is heading to Mars where she is offered sanctuary. Instead the governess sends Dagon on a mission to track down an information broker who sold Vanity a virus...
Ignatz is proposition by human prostitute Phin but turns her down. Ignatz finds a ball of paper in the jar containing Primavera's pickled uterus: a message from his daughter in the future, sent back in time through the quantum magic of the Lilim. Having been infected by Primavera Ignatz will infect whatever woman he sleeps with the doll plague, and his daughters message tells him who he has to infect. Fearing that Primavera's nanomachine infection has driven him mad Ignatz seeks help from Dr International, who examines him...
2 - STRANGE GIRLS
Ignatz' daughter Vanity has defected to Paris, Mars. Since Ignatz time the Martian diplomats have been responsible for banning the killing of Lillim by 'slink-riving' (impaling through the vagina). Mars is off-limits to human terrestrials and Elohim. Mutagenic rain soaked up by the early Mars colonists has rendered the Martians immune to Lilim doll plague infection. By this time Ignatz has died and Vanity wears Primavera's fossilized womb as an amulet. By the time of Vanity's generation the quantum magic is no longer strong in the Lilim. Vanity meets her new social worker Sabine before going to La Sucette bar where she has oral sex with a Martian called Tintin, fantasising she is being executed in the old belly spike manner by Dagon. Frustrated, Vanity sends instructions back to Ignatz...
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