Schadenfreude

Enter a mind full of transcendental drugs, doomed punks, voyeuristic puppets and omnipotent intergalactic prisons in Chris Kelso's debut short fiction collection. 'Chris Kelso is a writer of wide and varied obsessions. In Schadenfreude he shares all of them. Like all possessed minds, his is glued together with recurring themes, and they unify this volume in strange ways. Most forms of transportation in Kelso's world comprise metal peanut shells. And anything tubular, say a transportation artery or a sewer is presented as ropy, like the blood vessels into which drugs are constantly being injected. He populates Hell with pop icons (for which favour much gratitude is due). And he has performed the heretofore seemingly impossible task of coming up with interesting and original names for punk bands and their songs. This collection is just the right amount of raunchy, and is guaranteed to uplift the heart of today's most discerningly jaded nihilist' -"Tom Bradley, author of Hemorrhaging Slave of an Obese Eunuch 'Choke down a handful of magic mushrooms and hop inside a rocket ship trip to futuristic settings filled with pop culture, strange creatures and all manner of sexual deviance. The mundane becomes the bizarre, the standard evolves into the alien, and penises and vaginas are rarely what they seem. Buckle up. Shadenfruede is indeed pleasure derived from the misfortunes of others.' -"Richard Thomas, author of Transubstantiate


Genre: Science Fiction

"Schadenfreude proves, once and for all, that Chris Kelso is NOT a mannequin." - D Harlan Wilson