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Future Fiction Launch

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JOINT BOOK LAUNCH
WEDNESDAY 1st APRIL 6 – 9pm



Future Fiction
London presents:

Cities of Oblivion and Love Hotel City


FF1

CITIES OF OBLIVION

By Stephen Barber

It’s the immediate future, and an all-engulfing digital crash has impacted on the global megalopolises and their populations, transforming the nature of memory itself. Violence and hallucination, ocular and sexual mutation, and the aberrant power of the film image, now form the raw sensory materials by which the final traces of human bodies survive.

Among the disintegrating alleys and corporate plazas of an East Asian megalopolis, an amnesiac film-archivist and a silent bar-hostess make an obsessive alliance in order to reactivate – or destroy forever – the life of cities, with extreme consequences for their own memories and bodies.

FF2

LOVE HOTEL CITY

12 visions of Japan

12 of the UK and Japan’s most subversive authors

One visionary editor:

ANDREW STEVENS

FUTURE FICTION WEBSITE

NB: There were no photographs taken at this event – which is fitting as after a reading by Stephen Barber – there was a discussion on the role of memory in an over documented society.

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March 31, 2009 at 9:12 am