#jack womack

[theblackestofsuns]

Terraplane (1988)

Jack Womack

Weidenfled & Nicholson

[archivist-dragonfly]

Book 429

Flying Saucers Are Real!: The UFO Library of Jack Womack

Jack Womack

Anthology Editions 2016

Science fiction writer Jack Womack (b. 1956) has been collecting books about UFOs and other such esoterica for over 40 years, and this book brings together the highlights of his collection. Presenting a wealth of images taken from those, mostly mid-century, books—everything from their covers to diagrams of UFOs to drawings of aliens—this book leads the reader to the very beginnings of popular UFO culture, history, and lore. The Men in Black, life on Mars, life on Venus, conspiracy theories involving everything from the Soviets and the Third Reich to the government and Satan, soul channeling and recovered memories, Elvis, little green men and the slightly taller greys, Stonehenge, the Pyramids, even the Mothman—it can all be found here.

[theactioneer]

Fred Gambino Ambient cover art (1991)

[rhetoricandlogic]

HEATHERN by Jack Womack

RELEASE DATE: Oct. 1, 1990

Womack's third novel is set in the same near-future New York as Ambient and Terraplane, his well-received previous books. The story is told from the point of view of Joanna, an executive secretary at Dry. co, one of the multinational corporations that has taken over effective control of the country after the collapse of the economy. Dryco has learned that a man named Lester Macaffrey has what appears to be godlike powers, and Joanna's boss decides to acquire him as a potential corporate asset. Sent to recruit Macaffrey, Joanna sees him revive a man killed by one of her bodyguards, and realizes that he is a potential messiah. Dryco is more interested in using his powers to extend its competitive advantage over the Japanese, and sends him to recover information from the brain of a comatose employee. After much random violence and huggermugger, the whole scheme collapses. Womack has been touted as the latest ""cyberpunk"" saviour of sf, but this particular effort seems strained-- full of noir effects and fashionable pessimism, without the stylistic verve it needs to keep the reader turning pages.

[quantumlandbooks]

I know, I post a lot of funny rom com stuff, but actually my favourite book is Random Acts of Senseless Violence by Jack Womack and my favourite film is 28 Years Later by Alex Garland and Danny Boyle.

[rhetoricandlogic]

RANDOM ACTS OF SENSELESS VIOLENCE by Jack Womack

RELEASE DATE: Sept. 1, 1994

A young girl's diary presents a rioting vision of near- future Manhattan. Twelve-year-old Lola Hart, her sister, Boob, and their perfectly loving parents live on the Upper East Side. Daddy's a failing scriptwriter; Mommy's an unemployed professor; the girls go to private school. Lola begins a diary in February on a note of barely perceived alarm, as several schoolmates contract TB and the smoke and ash from uprisings in Brooklyn and Queens loom over Park Avenue. Something awful is happening out there, but her parents shield her from it. Finally her father's Hollywood work dries up in a nose-diving economy, and the family has to move to the bottom edge of West Harlem. Amid these crises, Lola discovers she likes girls; the rioting worsens; and ``Operation Domestic Storm,'' in which the army, national guard, and local police create martial law, shifts into full gear. Lola makes friends with some black and Puerto Rican girls from her new neighborhood, and they induct her by degrees into their gang, the Death Angels. In a matter of months, as the diary progresses, further violence and family misfortune sharpen and harden Lola. Womack (Elvissey, 1992, etc.) is at his best when Lola is at her toughest: Her good-girl voice, filled with innocent dread, gradually mutates into a kind of terrordome-speak, a lingo that mixes hip-hop cadences and linguistic neologisms on the order of A Clockwork Orange: ``Me and Mama rode back lipstilled the whole way. She vizzed sad like I know I do but nothing was sayable so I hushed and just remembered Boob like I knew her back when we homed in our old place.'' Womack's idea of the near future moves at a gallop: In six months, two presidents are assassinated, the money system changes, and all of Manhattan takes up arms. Womack gets high on violence the way Ballard and Burroughs do: with sickened brio.

Tense, knowing, and ambitious, this novel gets New York's class system right as it creates a language informed by every kind of contemporary American extremism.

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Science Fiction Eye #15 [1997-fall] : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

•    2 • EYEditorial (Science Fiction Eye #15) • essay by Stephen P. Brown •    10 • The Last Laugh of the Mohicans • [Terminal Lunch] •...

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6:16 AM EDT April 5, 2025:

Blöödhag - "Jack Womack" From the album Hell Bent For Letters (May 23, 2006)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

File under:    Death Metal about Science Fiction Writers

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