Frenzetta

[Dave Monroe]

>From the back cover of ...

Calder, Richard.  Frenzetta.  New York: Four Walls
   Eight Windows, 2002 (London: Orbit: 1998). 

"Duane Duarte feasts on human brains.  His
teeny-bopper-from-hell girlfriend is genetically
engineered to die in orgasm.  For Duarte, all that
matters is his love for the murderous 17-year-old
Frenzetta.

"Duarte is a reanimated corpse, a seven-foot-tall
Frankenstein fighting machine engineered from the body
parts of fallen soldiers.  His companion, Princess
Frenzetta von Thurn und Taxis-Hohenlohe (otherwise
known as 'Frenzy') is a half-rat, half-human. 
Together, they cut a swath of sex and violence across
the four continents of a decaying future Earth,
spurred on by the rumor of a sanctuary on the Moon.

"Frenzetta merges dreamy, poetic imagery with scenes
of breathtaking violence.  Calder recognizes the
intimate, indissoluble link between sex and
savagery--more than that, between sex and death. 
Blood-drenched violence goes hand-in-hand with erotic
acrobatics; opulence and decadence, decay and
fertility are Calder's themes."

Not on the publisher's site yet, but ...

http://www.4w8w.com

I've had occasion to bring up Calder here before ...

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0101&msg=51747&sort=date

Cybergoth, vs. cyberpunk ...

http://www.sfsite.com/isfdb-bin/pbiblio.cgi?Richard_Calder

http://www.sfsite.com/isfdb-bin/exact_author.cgi?Richard_Calder


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