The Flicker Against the Light and Writing the Contemporary Uncanny

by Jane Alexander

A woman walks through a virtual reconstruction of the destroyed streets where she and her lover used to live. A young man trades away his youth, and something of himself, in the plasma extracted from his blood. A clone addresses her dead, doubled 'self' as she tries to understand her personal history. In these uncanny stories of virtual reality, biotech, data surveillance and communications technology, Black Mirror meets M.R. James: unsettling...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1913387593
• ISBN13: 9781913387594
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: Luna Press Publishing
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"