Black Snow Days

by Claudia O'Keefe

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• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0441066895
• ISBN13: 9780441066896
• Release Date: April 1990
• Publisher: Ace Books
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A post-apocalypse variant

The world - as we know it - has ended. The world - period - has ended for the teenager son of a brilliant nanospecialist, the day he met full-body with a wall, at high speed. Reconstructed in body and with a amplified brain-power, the boy wakes to a world that has waited for years for him to get up and lead the way to a fabled secret base his mother had built and never revealed, before her untimely death. The thing is - even if his body has grown, Eric is still a teenager in mind, since he had no chance to become an adult. So he does what a teen would do: sulk and refuse to raise a finger. The desprerate world will not take no for an answer,not even from its probable saviour, and aided by Car, a machine enhanced with a bit of an artificial intelligence, and haunted by a feminine alter-ego that protects his mind from the worst shocks, Eric sets out to find this secret base... His plan is to find a quick way to suicide. Car just wants its owner alive and happy. The world will settle for salvation. None of them get what they're after. A great sci-fi, doubled by a coming-of-age tale. Recommended!

Deliciously Repulsive

O'Keefe's deliciously repulsive blend ofpost-apocalyptic SF and horror is a must for anyone who enjoyswallowing in disgust, despair and dysfunction. Eric is the countertype to all those gung-ho Captain Kirk-style heroes. When the going gets tough, Eric caves. It's a miracle he makes it through the first hundred pages. _Black Snow Days_ is a perfectly perverse gross-out festival. Don't miss the plague of flies. END