Anti-Oedipus Press • 2017
Paperback: 150 • 5 x 8 • $12.99 • ISBN 978-0-9991535-0-5
Kindle: $5.99
BOOK DESCRIPTION
Punctuating great American fears, James Reich targets the zones of recent history where worlds and anxieties collide, among them UFOs, the Battle of Midway, Hollywood, psychoanalysis and Japanese internment. Soft Invasions is an existential thriller about cowardice, cruelty and betrayal that invokes David Cronenberg's body-horror classics as well as the cold California glamor of Joan Didion, the ominous noir of Horace McCoy and the psychic angst of Norman Mailer.
This edition features an afterword by literary and media theorist Laurence A. Rickels, whose many works include SPECTRE and Germany: A Science Fiction, both available from Anti-Oedipus Press.
PRAISE FOR SOFT INVASIONS & JAMES REICH
"The queering of the Oedipus complex in Soft Invasions lifts it into a total psychology." —LAURENCE A. RICKELS, author of Germany: A Science Fiction and Nazi Psychoanalysis
“Reich is a formidable writer. He brings his characters and events to life with cinematic clarity. His eye for detail makes even the familiar seem alien. Above all he gives form to the terrifying invisible nuclear air that envelopes us all." —MALCOLM MCNEILL, author of Observed While Falling
"James Reich writes like a demon." —MARY DEARBORN, author of The Happiest Man Alive: A Biography of Henry Miller and Mailer: A Biography
“Blindingly brilliant and horrifyingly comic.” —THE HUFFINGTON POST
“Like Cormac McCarthy wandering a William Burroughs wasteland while blasting a riot grrrl mixtape on a scavenged Walkman!” —S. A. CRARY, director of Kill Your Idols
“Defiant, toothsome, and flaming with color, the voice of James Reich is one of the most exciting to emerge in recent years; he is both something new and something wholly real. If it is possible for a true underground writer to exist anymore, he is that author.” —STEPHEN E. ANDREWS, author of 100 Must-Read Science Fiction Novels
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