Have you read any of his books? They're often dystopian stories about the ultimate effects of consumerism. I guess they verge on sci-fi but they are presented as something else - a crime novel or something.
The one I remember reading is Cocaine Nights, but I'm sure I've read others.
Interesting discussion on wikipedia:
Will Self has described much of his fiction as being concerned with "idealised gated communities; the affluent, and the ennui of affluence [where] the virtualised world is concretised in the shape of these gated developments." He added in these fictional settings "there is no real pleasure to be gained; sex is commodified and devoid of feeling and there is no relationship with the natural world. These communities then implode into some form of violence."[61] Budrys, however, mocked his fiction as "call[ing] for people who don't think ... to be the protagonist of a J. G. Ballard novel, or anything more than a very minor character therein, you must have cut yourself off from the entire body of scientific education". (Source)
I disagree with Budrys - too literal rather than understanding the stories as metaphors.
Hehe 😁.
Have you read any of his books? They're often dystopian stories about the ultimate effects of consumerism. I guess they verge on sci-fi but they are presented as something else - a crime novel or something.
I've only read Empire of the Sun as part of A-level English Literature, that put me off, are any of the rest any good?!?
Okay - that's autobiographical I think?
The one I remember reading is Cocaine Nights, but I'm sure I've read others.
Interesting discussion on wikipedia:
I disagree with Budrys - too literal rather than understanding the stories as metaphors.
I wasn't aware it was autobiographical?
Maybe I'll give him a go! Haven't read a novel in ages!