Skinship
by James Reich
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Pub Date Dec 15 2024 | Archive Date Nov 19 2024
RDS Publishing | Anti-Oedipus Press
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Description
Bearing the final remnants of humanity and its genetic archive, the last Skinship to leave a dying, distant-future Earth closes in on the Dragonhead Nebula and the prospect planet that offers resurrection. With Applewhite, the First Navigator, apparently in the process of psychic collapse, a conspiracy emerges to murder him before he can compromise the mission or destroy the ship. Resisting this conspiracy is Monamy, a nonhuman Archivist who alone understands the nature of Applewhite’s breakdown. Inside the uncanny ship, chilling violence and grotesque forms break out. Meanwhile, 1,500 years after the abandonment of the planet, the last man on Earth struggles to survive and, somehow, escape.
Cinematic and intimate, James Reich’s latest novel evokes a yearning for the future evolving into panic, and the contradictions of nostalgia for forgotten things. Like Silent Running and The Man Who Fell to Earth before it, Skinship penetrates the loneliness of an ecological crisis.
Advance Praise
"James Reich is a literary auteur in the strictest sense. Nobody writes like him." —D. HARLAN WILSON
"James Reich is a literary auteur in the strictest sense. Nobody writes like him." —D. HARLAN WILSON
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9798986547961 |
| PRICE | $18.95 (USD) |
| PAGES | 192 |
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Featured Reviews
Reviewer 1564675
Skinship offers an interesting premise inside a conventional science fiction story. The Skinship is a generation starship traveling to a far away planet, leaving a desolate Earth. The story starts off following Applewhite, an artificial person and First Navigator of the skinship. Applewhite's purpose is to ensure the ship navigates safely to its destination. After many generations, the ship is closing in on its target and the ship's residents are becoming anxious. A plot is hatched against Applewhite.
The plot of this novel is compelling and has great potential, unfortunately, the story doesn't quite pull off the execution. Applewhite is an interesting character but we stop following his viewpoint about a quarter through the novel, and jump into the view of characters who come and go, just as quickly as we meet them. The characters all seem to have an unhealthy fascination with alcohol, which didn't add anything to the story. The pacing is quite slow for such a short novel, and gets boring at times.
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