On a dying Earth in a not-so-distant future, Josiane and René are the first to enter a new virtual world where just about anything is possible... Part dystopian love story, part psychedelic meditation on human nature, "Alt-Life" takes the reader down a mind-bending rabbit hole of desire, loneliness, and self-discovery.
Alt-Life is lettered using cursive script, giving all speech a celestial quality, even when they're talking about boredom and gangbangs. This is a book about an attempt to make a heaven out of hell. The angelic script in which all its characters speak is underscored by their triviality, their boredom, their resigned eagerness to be more than just their bodies. In other words, their utter humanity. Though this book lives inside a otherworldly science-fictional cocoon that is almost entirely devoid of recognizable politics, Cadne still manages to paint a striking portrait of the human condition within a post-human reality. Alt-Life is complex and simple, it's true and it's false, it's psychedelic and mundane " but it's totally worth your time. Read Full Review
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