/lit/ - Literature

Prose: Nabokov + Gibson + Pynchon + Burroughs
Transgressive as it gets. Find it.

I never see this posted here, so, there it is. Gibson went into airport tier thrillers after Neuromancer, but here, all edginess and Pynchon & Burroughs influence was kept. One of the kind book, find it if you can.

This: 'Dead Girls, the first book in the cycle, lays the groundwork for the rest of the series. The book focuses on Ignatz Kwazh, an angst ridden, obsessive nebbish, and his exotic paramour Primavera. Upon entering puberty, Primavera, like many of her contemporaries, contracted a nanotech virus which transformed her into a white, plastic skinned lifeform, called a "Doll" or "Lilim" (after Adam's first wife Lilith) by a fearful human populace. Males are apparently immune to the virus, but can become carriers through contact with the sexually ravenous Lilim--their saliva carries agents that infect male gametes, insuring that any girl-children will be born dolls.'

Best, most brutal, and out-here, cyberpunk book. Almost a prose poem. Read whole trilogy.