Dryco Series by Jack Womack (#1~4, 6)
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Overview: Jack Womack (born January 8, 1956) is an American author of fiction and speculative fiction.
Womack was born in Lexington, Kentucky, and now lives in New York City with his wife and daughter. "Yeah, I was in Kentucky. Lived there till I was 21, moved up here, and I’ve lived in my present apartment for 32 years in April."
Genre: Fiction> Science Fiction
#1-Ambient : Set in a future New York City that seems like a horrible amalgam of A Clockwork Orange’s London, modern-day Beirut and Germany during the Thirty Years’ War, this thriller, Womack’s first novel, does not live up to its ambitious theme. In 21st century Manhattan, a good portion of the citizenry consists of freaks engendered by a nuclear accident on Long Island. The freaks, or "ambients," of the title still retain a sense of community missing everywhere else in the world, however. Civic authority, such as it is, lies in Dryco, a conglomerate that controls the government. But things are falling apart inside Dryco. CEO Dryden Jr. believes that founder Dryden Sr. is destroying the company’s solvency by speculating in Bronx real estate. Dryden Jr. persuades O’Malley, the novel’s protagonist, to assassinate his father. The attempt misfires, and O’Malley must scramble to save his own life. Womack cites, and thus invites, comparison with A Clockwork Orange. But while Burgess used similar material to make serious fiction about connections between violence and dehumanization, and good and evil, the violence here merely titillates, and the tale is emp-ty of moral resonance and meaning.
#2-Terraplane: The second in Jack Womack’s acclaimed Ambient series, is a vision of alternate reality — New York in 1939, as experienced by travelers from the twenty-first century. Retired general-turned-corporate-spy Luther Biggerstaff and his hit man Jake are on a covert mission to kidnap Soviet superscientist Alekhine for their boss, the head of the multinational corporation Dryco. But Alekhine has disappeared, and they must be content with his genius assistant Oktobriana and a device he left behind — which catapults them headlong into the past. But this 1939 is different — slavery was not abolished until 1907, F.D.R. has been assassinated, and the Great Depression has cut even deeper; Churchill has died in a street accident, and the world is at Hitler’s mercy. The only hope Luther and Jake have of getting home again depends on an unlikely conjunction of the New York World’s Fair, the blues tunes of Robert Johnson, and the avant-garde physics of Nikola Tesla. Terraplane is a surreal, darkly comic, and gripping journey into the twilight zone of history gone mad.
#3-Heathern: The sequel to Ambient and Terraplane, has been praised by William Gibson as a "savage urban baroque informed by a penetrating humanity … his best so far!" Tautly written and appallingly funny, Heathern is a dystopian tale of corporate combat and media warfare in the fading years of our century.
Thatcher Dryden, former drug kingpin and now leader of the megacorporation Dryco, intends to supply a waiting world with the Messiah it so desperately seeks. But Lester Macaffrey, a schoolteacher found performing miracles among the human flotsam of the Lower East Side, proves no more controllable than any Messiah. While Thatcher’s minions scheme to sell the world salvation with a Dryco label on it, Thatcher’s own mistress is strangely drawn to Macaffrey — and begins to be transformed into something new and strange … something that might change the world.
#4-Elvissey: A troubled couple sets out from a dismal future to retrieve Elvis Presley from an oddly different 1954. They need the King to be a savior to what’s left of humanity, but he’s a murderous freak with no desire to be anyone’s god. Elvissey is set in Jack Womack’s maybe-not-cyberpunk future, where the Dryco corporation runs everything, and everyone has been or will be "regooded," for their own good. Womack writes in an evolved language, full of odd verbs and newspeak: "He unpocketed a bottle of small blue pills; Dryco’s standard eyedots and smile were imprinted upon each tablet. Three hours sole could pass between dosings, no more, no less. Swallowing dry, he fixed a doorways stare; shook, and resettled…. Regooded or not, his unscratchables still itched."
#6-Going, Going, Gone: Publishers Weekly has called Jack Womack a "futurist wunderkind … fast-moving, hipper-than-hip." In his latest novel it’s 1968, and Walter Bullitt, part-time U.S. government freelancer, stays busy testing new psychotropics on himself and unsuspecting citizens. Walter’s conscience never interferes with his work — until he’s asked to help sabotage Bobby Kennedy’s presidential campaign. The ghosts who’ve moved into his apartment aren’t much comfort. Then two outre femmes fatales show up and frog-march Walter out of Max’s Kansas City before the Velvet Underground can finish their first song. The ladies have a mission. They need to save New York — both his and theirs. Called "infernally clever" by Locus, Going, Going, Gone is a deeply entertaining novel that closes Jack Womack’s acclaimed Ambient series and serves up an apt diagnosis of modern America.
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