Frenzetta

By Richard Calder

Technology from the past litters the streets, and the old world has fragmented. But only one thing matters to the man-monster Duane Duarte: his love for the murderous Frenzetta, a 17-year-old half-rat, half-human. Duane Duarte is a revenant, or reanimated corpse, a seven-foot-tall fighting machine engineered from the body parts of fallen soldiers. Frenzetta is a chimera, doomed to enjoy the horribly ecstatic fate of death by orgasm. Together, this delightful couple cut a swath of sex and violence across four continents of a far-future universe.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1568582293
• ISBN13: 9781568582290
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Interesting concept

Overall definitely worth reading. I thought there was a little "thesaurus action" here, i.e. using larger words for the impact of the size rather than the story. The concepts of species diversity are fresh and interesting, although as a science guy I would've like some more exploration into that process and how it happened.

Book of the Perverse

Not for the faint of heart and weak of stomach, this is one of the best novels I had the pleasure to read this year. It's a book both wonderful and disturbing in its portrayal of sensuous exoticism and mind-numbing brutality, with Calder's baroque prose rarely, if ever, missing a beat.