Help with disturbing book I read in middle school

[psychotick]

Hi,

Sounds like a sort of mish mash of a couple of Norman Spinrad books - The Men in the Jungle and A World Between.

Cheers, Greg.

 

[Vince W]

No I don't think it is the Gor series by John Norman. Embarrassing I know but I did read a few as a teenager.

Don't feel bad. I think most of us read at least one or two (maybe six) as teens.

 

[Anthoney]

I once bet someone that I could randomly open a Gor book and somewhere on the two page spread there would be a woman explaining how she liked being some dudes slave. How it was her place or some such similar nonsense. I won that bet.

 

[Lolrus]

I love trawling through these old queries, possibly the book has been found or the user no longer comes here, but I like answering the ones I can anyway.

I'm positive that this is "A Splendid Chaos" by John Shirley. Yes, it's disturbing, but a damn good book none the less.

 

[Danny McG]

a large creature with a super large penis

I've got feelings you know, please stop calling me a creature

 

[Jo Zebedee]

I love trawling through these old queries, possibly the book has been found or the user no longer comes here, but I like answering the ones I can anyway.

I'm positive that this is "A Splendid Chaos" by John Shirley. Yes, it's disturbing, but a damn good book none the less.

We’ll now, have I got one for you. YA 80s domed city, free thinkers, dude with green hair (a gardener, I think) and a pile up on a moving walkway. Female author I think. Put both me and @dannymcguinness out of our misery

 

[otistdog]

@Lolrus, Jo Zebedee is making reference to this unsolved book search post: Genetically modified bloke with green hair, escalator scene

 

[Lolrus]

Yeah, I've been looking at that post, sadly it's nothing I'm familiar with.

 

[HareBrain]

Yeah, I've been looking at that post, sadly it's nothing I'm familiar with.

Every so often someone new and promising comes along, and we think "He will pull the sword from the stone, and we shall have a rightful king again." And then nothing, and darkness settles over the land once more.

 

[CassFrank]

I can confirm this is A Splendid Chaos by John Shirley. It’s a very delirious novel about an incredible weird planet - the two scenes the op mentioned are indeed disturbing and haunting but are only two (brief) sequences among many. Shirley is primarily known for his horror fiction and his surrealist sci fi incorporates that imagery.

 

[Danny McG]

I can confirm this is A Splendid Chaos by John Shirley

Wow!
I like it when a noob comes right in and solves one.... respect

(I've downloaded the book now and will have a go at it whenever)

 

[Jo Zebedee]

Ah now.. a newbie book hunter. Have I got a thread to bump ...

 

[Ravensquawk]

A description like that fires off a choiceless tropism of thinking of Harlan Ellison.

I'm scarred for life.