The tale itself reads something like a fusion of System Shock and parts of Ray Bradbury's The City. In both cases, the achievement is admirable, though exhausting. In a certain way it reminds me of the Guillermo del Toro film Pan's Labyrinth, which had the audacity to sew together a wondrous, childlike fantasy and a grim, horrifically real war story. The tone and content draw from the erotic and the clinically repellent, switch between them and occasionally combine them. And if you think the use of sentence fragments as impressionistic descriptors is passé, the rest of Cyberqueen probably won't be to your taste, because what it mainly does - what it does best - is transplant the experience of fragmenting consciousness into writing.Ĭyberqueen is a war between intimacy and grotesquery, violation and transformation. The first two words in this game are "wet" and "sticky". Play it if: you want a nearly-pure transformation of text into a visceral, cinematic experience.ĭon't play it if: you have a weak stomach for just about anything that could reasonably be expected to make a human being queasy. By Jim Kaplan (Jim Kaplan has a room called the location.
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