The Ultraviolet Catastrophe: A Culturepreneurial Horror

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A head-trip through capitalism’s final frontier.



Legal-high addict, gaming enthusiast, and principal shareholder of AstroLabs™, Lex Rameses, has recently discovered—and purchased—Proserpina: a planet with a near-identical ecosystem to Earth’s. Yet, although his humanistic, hipster pretensions mean that many people admire him, there is still one thing standing in the way of his space-colonization program: as of yet, there is no way to travel to Proserpina safely. Enter a cast of mad scientists, Astro–Marxists, a neurorobotic AI hivemind, an extinction anxiety addict, the victims of an interrelated crypto-currency gaming scam, and a seemingly endless succession of ravers and gamers in search of the ultimate hallucinogenic, carcinogenic, neü-space-age high…

A head-trip through capitalism’s final frontier. Legal-high addict, gaming enthusiast, and principal shareholder of AstroLabs™, Lex Rameses, has recently discovered—and purchased—Proserpina: a planet with a near-identical ecosystem to Earth’s. Yet, although his humanistic, hipster pretensions ...

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Susan Finlay is the author of four, critically acclaimed 'art novels' and an anti-memoir. Her books have been named as White Review Books of the Year, Anti-Capitalist Resistance Books of the Year, and many UK independent and gallery bookstores' recommended reads. Her work has been published in POETRY, The Stinging Fly, LARB, TLS, Spike, Frieze, Art Review and Tate Etc. She was a founder member of MOIST Books.

Susan Finlay is the author of four, critically acclaimed 'art novels' and an anti-memoir. Her books have been named as White Review Books of the Year, Anti-Capitalist Resistance Books of the Year, and many UK independent and gallery bookstores' recommended reads. Her work has been published in PO...

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