5 books by Mick Farren
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Overview: Farren was the singer with the proto-punk English band The Deviants between 1967 and 1969, releasing three albums. In 1970 he released the solo album Mona – The Carnivorous Circus which also featured Steve Peregrin Took, John Gustafson and Paul Buckmaster, before leaving the music business to concentrate on his writing.
Genre: Sci-Fi/Fantasy
The Armageddon Crazy
A complex and mordant satire. Near-future America has become a dictatorship run by a fundamentalist Christian televangelist in the Jim Bakker mould, with the Constitution suspended, a religious police force of Deacons who root out heresy and liberalism by torture, and concentration camps for unbelievers. Control is reinforced at mass prayer meetings by the use of extravagant special effects projections – the Beast, the Whore of Babylon, and other Revelations favourites in 100-foot high 3D. The best effects programmer in the business is Charlie Mansard, an eccentric slob who would long ago have wound up in a camp but for his usefulness to the regime. Meanwhile, a terrorist group, the Lefthand Path, is setting bombs in public places. Harry Carlisle, a tough old-school NYPD cop, is tasked with nailing Lefthand Path, unaware that he is merely a pawn in a power struggle among the elite (and that his girlfriend is a terrorist sleeper agent). Some great jokes in here. Notice how Americans (the South Park movie, Dennis Leary in No Cure for Cancer, etc.) often jest about having a war with Canada? Well, in this novel, it’s the Canucks who do the invading. Oh, and Elvis is an officially-tolerated cult religion, followers dressed in His image, and His own Holy Book. The whole thing builds to a glorious climax when the special effects finally run amok and the regime comes crashing down. With the state of special FX in the movies now, this novel is entirely filmable. But would anyone have the balls? Not in Hollywood, probably.
Their Master’s War
The sequel to ‘PROTECTORATE’, though one would not realise this till the very end, this is an excellently told tale of the entire human race reduced to cannon fodder by a race of conquering aliens. A frightening, entertaining, cynical, but above all ENTERTAINING tale told thru the perspective of hapless infantry foot soldiers press-ganged into fighting a vast, meaningless war waged by superior alien races.
Protectorate
The Earth has been invaded by an advanced alien species, who views both the planet and its peoples as expendable pawns in a galaxy wide war. The "Protector" is the alien appointed ruler of the humanity. It is a grim and sad world, humans struggle to survive a collapsing economy, political rivalry, rebellious soldiers, and hostile aliens.
The Long Orbit
The Long Orbit is also known as Exit Funtopia.
Though firmly ensconced in a futuristic world, Marlowe lives in the past of 1940s detectives, but his fantasy life assumes the hard edge of reality when he takes a case offered by a mysterious woman.
Vickers
When a Las Vegas crime boss turns a nuclear bomb shelter into his own private kingdom and prepares his underground army to take over a world in flames, it is time to hire the hottest hitman money can buy. A killer extraordinaire. A man like Vickers.
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