Carnifex Mardi Gras

Product Description

Carnifex Mardi Gras is a science fiction novel that takes place in the last decades of the 21st Century. Roald Vallen -- big time holotape director on the skids -- will do anything to make his way back to the top again. When Vallen infiltrates the mysterious Jackson Hole enclave, he runs head-on into the greatest challenge of his career -- The Crying Clown Rites. The question now becomes not whether he will make his expose or not, but his own survival!

Review

Picture, if you can, a painting done in a collaboration between Heironymous Bosch and Norman Rockwell. While you're viewing that painting, hear in your mind's ear Beethoven's Ninth performed by a speed freak on a Mog Synthesizer. You are now ready for the impact of John F. Carr's Carnifex Mardi Gras. It has the power and strength that is so unforgettble that you will not be the same person after having read it. Certain scenes stand out as though they had been permanently Xeroxed on your brain. Beware the redheaded dwarf with the silver phallus. Beware the King of Dwarves. And most importantly, beware the Crying Clown. -- Kathleen Sky

About the Author

John F. Carr is the author of several science fiction novels. He has also edited over 25 sf anthologies with Jerry Pournelle. An authority on H. Beam Piper, he has edited 4 volumes of previously uncollected Piper short story collections. He is presently at work on the 4 volume Crying Clown Celebration with Camden Benares.