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This is a story about one man, a member of a creepy hole-in-the-wall gang. His kooky cabal of opportunists went by many names by the time they retired from the “Get” game.
A Getman nefariously obtains biological tissue for genetic engineering. He is one of the 21st century resurrectionists.
Publish Date September 30, 2010
Dimensions Pocket 118 pgs Black and White printing (on cream uncoated paper)
Category Literature & Fiction
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Papayaman says
George Hunka from Superfluties: Finally, in the “Books Received” department, something chilling. In fiction, Dr. Frankenstein and his loyal henchman Igor cheerily exhumed the bodies of the dead for their experiments, but this fiction was based on fact. In his new novel Vivocraft: Letters from a Getman, Eric Saks provides a fantasia of contemporary “resurrectionists,” freelance bodysnatchers now in the pay of the genetic technology industry rather than medical schools; his lead character travels around the world to collect rare genetic material from the living and dead alike. (How much of this fantasia is fantasy and how much truth is for the genetic technology industry to say; Mary Shelley didn’t make it up, either.) Post-Shelley, Saks’ style marries Robert Lewis Stevenson to William S. Burroughs for a freewheeling parody and satire of capitalism and consumerism, infused with a laconic eroticism. Saks promises a multimedia version of the book soon;
posted at 01:18pm Nov 19 PST
greavill says
Plunging into the Vivocraft world and the bent mind of Jack R is to find yourself in a Percocet dream after a fifth of Jim Beam hangover. Hard to tell what's real or not, but whatever is happening totally dogs your mind. Ever since I read an early draft, Vivocraft has haunted me. Strange, unsettling, highly entertaining, laugh-out-loud funny and twistedly sick (in a good way), Eric Saks's epistolary novel gives us a whole new world in which to play. Readers will pray their own personal genomes do not feature any anomalies that might interest the Franken-freaks out there, and learn to guard their double helixes well from the predations of the Getmen. From the compelling evidence of this one-of-a-kind book, the brave new world is a lot like the cowardly old one.
posted at 08:25am Oct 18 PST