"The Red Tank" is a contemporary literary novel by a dazzlingly inventive writer looking anew at the human project in the globalized 21st century as though from a Martian point of view, through myths, fables, utopias, and dystopias of modern and future life.
"The Red Tank" is a contemporary literary novel by a dazzlingly inventive writer looking anew at the human project in the globalized 21st century as t...
"Runners" is a contemporary remake of Machiavelli's "Prince" with a nod to Gramsci's "Modern Prince," the revolutionary party. It is a tale of complicity between leaders, the nature of political friendships and loyalties, the contradictions between leaders and electors, between democratic rhetoric and practice, the leadership and the base.
"Runners" is a contemporary remake of Machiavelli's "Prince" with a nod to Gramsci's "Modern Prince," the revolutionary party. It is a tale of complic...
Fraser's novel about political commitment and liberation set around the year 1968 reflects the high season of Guevara in Bolivia and attempts to insert a revolutionary foco in places where objective conditions were politically ripe, but where the subjective element and the most rudimentary organization were absent.
Fraser's novel about political commitment and liberation set around the year 1968 reflects the high season of Guevara in Bolivia and attempts to inser...
Young Soviet intellectuals, bright but not brilliant, confront a future threatened with war and stagnation, but still with the impetus of post-Stalinist regeneration.
Young Soviet intellectuals, bright but not brilliant, confront a future threatened with war and stagnation, but still with the impetus of post-Stalini...
Two novellas by John Fraser, Blue Light and Starting Over, conclude a quadrilogy whose previous volumes comprised The Red Tank, Runners and Medusa. We may like to imagine what the end of the world is like - it's not dissimilar to our own end. Blue Light shows what it's like, the running down, the onset of rigor mortis - and the new life sprouting, notwithstanding. Living for ever may not be too bad - but do you really want it? When the world has ended, how attractive is rebirth, or resurrection? Starting Over may mean you have to piece a whole new world together - just using the ruins of the...
Two novellas by John Fraser, Blue Light and Starting Over, conclude a quadrilogy whose previous volumes comprised The Red Tank, Runners and Medusa. We...
John Fraser's last work of fiction, Hard Places, was a series of novellas concerning physical and moral dilemmas, left unresolved at the expense of the protagonist. This sequel, Soft Landing, is the opposite - a novel of quest and adventure, in which scruple is overcome, and demanding or impossible situations have outcomes favourable to the hero. The trail takes us from urban violence to Eldorado, the regime of a bikers' club, and the secret finds of a prospectors' camp. The last section shows all puzzles solved, and the protagonists' return home with gifts. In keeping with the tale's sour...
John Fraser's last work of fiction, Hard Places, was a series of novellas concerning physical and moral dilemmas, left unresolved at the expense of th...
