{"product_id":"moderan-9781681372549","title":"Moderan","description":"\u003cb\u003eA collection of chilling and prescient stories about ecological apocalypse and the merging of human and machine.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWelcome to Moderan, world of the future. Here perpetual war is waged by furious masters fighting from Strongholds well stocked with \"arsenals of fear\" and everyone is enamored with hate. The devastated earth is coated by vast sheets of gray plastic, while humans vie to replace more and more of their own \"soft parts\" with steel. What need is there for nature when trees and flowers can be pushed up through holes in the plastic? Who requires human companionship when new-metal mistresses are waiting? But even a Stronghold master can doubt the catechism of Moderan. Wanderers, poets, and his own children pay visits, proving that another world is possible. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"As if Whitman and Nietzsche had collaborated,\" wrote Brian Aldiss of David R. Bunch's work. Originally published in science-fiction magazines in the 1960s and '70s, these mordant stories, though passionately sought by collectors, have been unavailable in a single volume for close to half a century. Like Anthony Burgess in \u003ci\u003eA Clockwork Orange\u003c\/i\u003e, Bunch coined a mind-bending new vocabulary. He sought not to divert readers from the horror of modernity but to make us face it squarely. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis volume includes eleven previously uncollected Moderan stories.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/11\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781681372549\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 4.90w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/25\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/15\/2018\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"David R. Bunch","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44145768825013,"sku":"9781681372549","price":19.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_d91d6ebf-f8de-486f-9c4a-9c62dbffcfac.jpg?v=1715697602","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/moderan-9781681372549","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}