Katja from the Punk Band

by Simon Logan

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Pub Date Mar 25 2014 | Archive Date Apr 02 2014

Diamond Book Distributors | ChiZine Publications

Sci Fi & Fantasy

Description

Katja, like everyone else stuck on the work island they call home, wants toget to the mainland by any means necessary.

Shooting her boyfriend and stealinga chemical vial is one way to ensure her safe passage the only problemis, she's not the only one who wants it, and the freedom it will bring: There's Nikolai the joystick junkie; Aleksakhina, Katja's parole officer; Vladimir Kohl, the small-time chemical dealer, and his boss Szerynski; the rival chemical lord Dracyev, and his lover, Ylena.

And there's the Man In Red, ready and waiting forwhoever is (un)lucky enough to end up with the vial.

Jackie Brown meets the Sex Pistols in this fast-paced industrial crime-thriller that weaves multiple storylines and time frames.

Katja, like everyone else stuck on the work island they call home, wants toget to the mainland by any means necessary.

Shooting her boyfriend and stealinga chemical vial is one way to ensure her...

Advance Praise

"Logan maneuvers a large cast through overlapping sections of the plot, setting up characters separately and then slamming them into violent confrontations. Readers who can tolerate the deliberately unpleasant action will appreciate the skill with which it's presented."
–Publishers Weekly

"Each chapter is told from a different character’s perspective, a device that sounds awkward and, truthfully, sometimes is. But the ambition to even attempt it speaks volumes for this author and there are times where—despite the grit and the tawdry surroundings—Logan comes very close to creating something like art. . .There are times that Katja From the Punk Band is so good its almost scary."
–Lincoln Cho, at January Magazine

"For a neat slice of punk lit, Simon Logan won't see you wrong. Katja speaks to the disenfranchised; Logan populating her pages with a wonderful menagerie of characters from start to finish. This is a page-turner like none other, a merry-go-round of bizarro that will have your eyes bleed with tiredness rather than put this bad girl down."
–Wayne Simmons, author of FLU

"Logan is a stylish transgressor for the next evolutionary moment; he reminds me of Harlan Ellison at his most daring and dangerous-raw, fearless, unpredictable, disturbing, and much needed."
–Jack O'Connell, author of Word Made Flesh and The Resurrectionist

"Logan maneuvers a large cast through overlapping sections of the plot, setting up characters separately and then slamming them into violent confrontations. Readers who can tolerate the...