Trafik

Do androids read books by Julio Cortázar? Shower massages her in all the right places, but this is a shallow comfort. Once an avatar from another galaxy had – by no fault of its own – entered the shower at the very moment she had climaxed. Quiver’s muffled cries were enough to send it packing. To her......more

Quirky even for Ducornet. Suffused with her characteristic charm, wit, sensuality and signature linguistic exuberance. A vivid dreamscape of "tonguefeels." A melancholic deepening of post-atomic exotic, nebulous human-wannabes on the edge of the pendulous nostalgia-fueled singularity of an entire di......more

The latest (painfully short) novella from Rikki Ducornet is a surreal space frolic tying the humour of Stanislaw Lem to the lexical impishness of Christine Brooke-Rose’s Xorandor. Most of the novella consists of Ducornet having a riot inventing loopy sci-fi concepts such as the Plonk Sidereal Atlas,......more

This is just a gift. I can’t shake the feeling that RD had a blast skewering and lampooning tropes, conjuring fuck-dumb proper nouns, etc. There seems to be some damn great, good-natured potshots at peers in the form of not-obvious devices, making this a valedictory lap all the sweeter for the incom......more