Moderan

<b>A collection of chilling and prescient stories about ecological apocalypse and the merging of human and machine.</b><br><br>Welcome to Moderan world of the future. Here perpetual war is waged by furious masters fighting from Strongholds well stocked with &#147;arsenals of fear&#148; and everyone is enamored with hate. The devastated earth is coated by vast sheets of gray plastic while humans vie to replace more and more of their own &#147;soft parts&#148; with steel. What need is there for nature when trees and flowers can be pushed up through holes in the plastic? Who requires human companionship when new-metal mistresses are waiting? But even a Stronghold master can doubt the catechism of Moderan. Wanderers poets and his own children pay visits proving that another world is possible.<br><br><br>&#147;As if Whitman and Nietzsche had collaborated&#148; wrote Brian Aldiss of David R. Bunch&#146;s work. Originally published in science-fiction magazines in the 1960s and &#146;70s these mordant stories though passionately sought by collectors have been unavailable in a single volume for close to half a century. Like Anthony Burgess in <i>A Clockwork Orange</i> Bunch coined a mind-bending new vocabulary. He sought not to divert readers from the horror of modernity but to make us face it squarely.<br><br><i>This volume includes eleven previously uncollected Moderan stories.</i>