![]() Discover other books like this, author exclusives, and more Book Details. His most recent editorial projects include The Apes of Wrath, Rayguns Over Texas, Hap and Leonard, and Hap and Leonard Ride Again. so they can make their way to Libertalia, a legendary pirate utopia. Mojo Press co-founder Rick Klaw is an editor, pop culture historian, reviewer, social media maven, and optimistic curmudgeon. He lives in Austin, Texas, where he also practices technology law. His other fiction and criticism can be found at. World Fantasy Award nominee Christopher Brown's novel Tropic of Kansas, about Americans trying to create their own liberated city-states, is forthcoming from Harper Voyager in 2017. 187 clean inside pages of English text with some b&w illustrations, no inscriptions. He was the Artist Guest of Honour at Ars Necronomica 2015. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric and Discredited Diseases, Lovecraft's Monsters, and Clive Barker's A?Z of Horror. John Coulthart is the World Fantasy Award-winning illustrator and designer of the iconic Steampunk anthology series, the The Thackery T. He has written for Vice and Wired UK and is currently at work on various projects. ![]() His graphic novel Iron Man Extermis was the basis for the blockbuster Iron Man 3 movie. Warren Ellis is the internationally-bestselling author of the graphic novels Transmetropolitan, Fell, Red, and Planetary, and the novels Gun Machine and Crooked Little Vein. ![]() Sterling splits his time among the cities of Austin, Turin, and Belgrade. A renowned expert on technology, Sterling has appeared on ABC's Nightline, the BBC's The Late Show, MTV, and TechTV, and in Wired where he is a featured blogger, as well as in Time, Newsweek, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Fortune, Nature, La Stampa, La Repubblica, and many other venues. ![]() His much-heralded nonfiction includes The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier, and The Epic Struggle of the Internet of Things. He is perhaps best known for his ten visionary science fiction novels, as a founder of the cyberpunk movement, and as the editor of the quintessential cyberpunk anthology Mirrorshades. And the Prophet, a seductive warrior-poet who leads via free love and military ruthlessness.įresh off of a worldwide demonstration of their might, can the Futurists engage the aid of sinister American traitors and establish global domination?īruce Sterling (Schismatrix, The Zenith Angle, Zeitgeist) is an internationally-bestselling author, journalist, editor, columnist, and critic. The Ace of Hearts, a dashing Milanese aristocrat, spymaster, and tactical savant. Frau Piffer, Syndicalist manufacturer of torpedos at a factory run by and for women. Lorenzo Secondari, World War I veteran, engineering genius, and leader of Croatian raiders. The ambitious Soldier-Citizens of Carnaro are led by a brilliant and passionate coterie of the perhaps insane. Mortal enemies of communists, capitalists, and even fascists (to whom they are not entirely unsympathetic). Who are these bold rebels pillaging their European neighbors in the name of revolution? The Futurists Utopian pirate warriors of the diminutive Regency of Carnaro, scourge of the Adriatic Sea. (Nov.Original introduction by Warren Ellis, author of Transmetropolitan and Gun Machine An introduction by Warren Ellis and an interview with Sterling sandwich the novel, both bearing an air of false gravitas, but the actual story is wacky and fun what-if-ing at its finest. Hitler died saving another man’s life in a bar fight, Wilson was poisoned, and Mussolini’s been disabled by a pair of bullets aimed “where a man least likes to be shot,” so the Europe in which Secondari is attempting to create his radio-controlled airborne torpedoes and other gizmos is already massively different from ours. Pirates and the Politics of the Jolly Roger (Montreal, Black Rose Books, 1997). He and his compatriots build flying boats and fight communism while dealing with American secret agents, including Harry Houdini and Howard Lovecraft (who’s now working as Houdini’s publicity agent after going into advertising). Do or Die Pirate Utopias Under the Banner of King Death Friday June 18th. Lorenzo Secondari, a veteran of the recently ended Great War and forever changed by it, is the head engineer of the titular utopia, the Italian free state of Fiume. Cyberpunk progenitor Sterling’s alternate history novella is bizarre, chock-full of famous people in improbable situations, and wildly entertaining, even when the worldbuilding seems to go a little off the rails. ![]()
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