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Book one of John Shirley's pre-holocaust series, A Song Called Youth. Like many works defining the wild cyberpunk fringe in the 1980s, this depiction of a near-future dystopia, here revised and updated since its 1985 debut, seems almost acceptably mainstream today. But Shirley's spiky prose and edgy attitudes, which lately have cultivated a following among horror readers ( Wetbones ; Really, Really, Really, Really Weird Stories ), still hook the reader's attention. Tapping anxieties about rising global nationalism, Shirley presents a Goya-esque vision of war-torn western Europe, bombed out and unstable in the early years of the 21st century from a resurgence of Russian militarism and the collapse of NATO. The Second Alliance, a government-sanctioned multinational police force, has rushed in to restore order and revealed itself a nightmarish incarnation of every fascist and fundamentalist power fantasy. The only defense against the Alliance's creeping totalitarianism is the New Resistance, a polyglot pick-up team of rebels that includes Rick Rickenharp, a tripping retro guitarist whose artistic and political sensibilities are sinuously intertwined, and John Swenson, a mole whose so

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Author

Shirley, John

Publisher

Babbage Press

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9781930235007

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Science Fiction, Music

Rating

3.94 / 5 (489 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13