Kenji Siratori: "The fucking is a platform. The utterances that occur mid-act—"Do you like that?" "Come & become"—are not speech acts in the classical sense but executable mood-tags within a linguistic operating system." US: amazon.com/dp/B0CZLD3VVC UK: amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CZLD3VVC

Kenji Siratori: "The ROBOT ROBOT text is not written in the conventional sense—it is engineered. It is constructed as a viral algorithm of stuttering code, psychosexual overflow, and systemic breakdown." Spain: amazon.es/dp/B0CZLD3VVC Canada: amazon.ca/dp/B0CZLD3VVC

Kenji Siratori on ROBOT ROBOT: "Zig's world—a chaos of taverns, football matches, and decaying erections—is a deflated humanism metabolized by its own fictionality." US: amazon.com/dp/B0CZLD3VVC UK: amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CZLD3VVC FR: amazon.fr/dp/B0CZLD3VVC JP: amazon.co.jp/dp/B0CZLD3VVC

"If literature once promised transcendence, ROBOT ROBOT offers immanence to collapse. The writer becomes a vector. The text, a contaminated zone. The reader, a laboratory rat in a semiotics. 'We are forgetting machines.'" -Kenji Siratori

"For the writer in particular it is less and less necessary for him to invent the fictional content of his novel. The fiction is already there. The writer's task is to invent the reality.” -J.G. Ballard, Crash Bookpilled gets crushed by CRASH 🚗🚗🚗 youtu.be/1LsjOAOaohE?si…

Who knew?... Giamatti & Colbert know a thing or 2 about SF... Philip K. Dick, Harlan Ellison, Henry Kuttner, A.E. van Vogt, L. Sprague de Camp, Jack Vance, & Cordwainer Smith youtu.be/D8Jvx-6LI1M?si…

One from the vaults: MOURNING, by Richard Makin (2015) “The writing is that it is. This is prose you must learn to experience before you begin to interpret […] the pages in their beautiful and delirious abstraction are ordered poetry.” —Iain Sinclair “Without recognisable

"Anizar manages to combine some highly poignant mediations on the absurdities of creativity in today’s oh-so-unoriginal world with a clever absurdist satire that never takes itself too seriously, a perfect blend of humorous rampage and serious intellection." --Ondřej Polák

The Big Blow-up left huge radioactive sores (the graves of cities) all over the face of the Earth. In time, from some of the women who had been near these shunned areas, the first totally hairless babies began to be born... known as “Baldies,”... the Baldies were telepathic!

"This 'parentless book,' whose protagonist, seemingly both a ghost in the machine and a body of living matter, is in the process of writing a (non)book, presumably, the very book we are given to read, is a direct product of an age, where parents have been superseded by

“A striking and unstable admixture of visual and textual storytelling in which Armand cements himself as just the kind of mad-scientist-cum-philosopher-cum-avant-gardist needed to survive the technocratic authoritarianism of the mid-twenty-first century. Bring on the

“Louis Armand, in this zany and fiery culmination of the Golemgrad pentalogy, has produced a multimedia extravaganza that is comic in every sense...” Nicholas Birns <3 A Tomb in H-Section

To honour the approaching 1st anniversary of Harold's passing, Ondřej Polák reviews his PERFORMANCES FOR THE END OF TIME (Equus, 2022), reading the book as a "a chronicle of a post-postmodern apocalypse [...], a series of short, performative vignettes documenting what, at the

Armand saves human brains from summer atrophy yet again!

14 reviews: Schattenfroh • Attila • Unruly Books • Lo-Fi Fiction • Precious Rubbish & More • Interviews with with Claudia Zoe Bedrick and René Vašíček thebookbeat.com/backroom/2025/…

Q. & A. with RGV about “lo-fi samizdat” & the Prague underground as Tom Bowden arrogantly recommends AUGENBLICK! thebookbeat.com/backroom/2025/…

Something is in the pipeline... youtube.com/clip/UgkxMNRYd…

Gianatasio David Gianatasio is a Kafka of micropulp… “The TV chuckles & winks its pulsating eye” 👁️ bit.ly/4hqHvzi

.r.g. vašíček's minimalist trek through the valley of shadows feels potent, political—most of all, personal. We're ALL in there, w/ no rod or staff for comfort. We will fear evil, maybe even fear ourselves. A disturbingly distilled dystopia. READ IT! bit.ly/4lPEThu

All mine today !🤩🤩🤩from r.g. vašíček great photography in books too... Samizdat ✊