Dr. Identity, or, Farewell to Plaquedemia | |
Author: | D. Harlan Wilson |
Cover Artist: | Morten Bak |
Country: | USA |
Language: | English |
Series: | Book 1 in The Scikungfi Trilogy |
Genre: | Science fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Metafiction, Irrealism, Bizarro, Postmodernism |
Publisher: | Raw Dog Screaming Press |
Release Date: | 2007 |
Media Type: | |
Pages: | 212 |
Isbn: | 1-933293-32-2 |
Oclc: | 122932539 |
Preceded By: | Pseudo-City |
Dr. Identity (2007) is the fourth book and first novel by American author D. Harlan Wilson. Set in a dystopian, mediatized future where people surrogate themselves with android lookalikes, the novel focuses on the foils of an English professor (Dr. 'Blah), his psychotic android (Dr. Identity), and their flight from the agents of the Law, especially the "Papanazi." Like much of Wilson's work, Dr. Identity is distinguished by its ultraviolence, metanarration, and critique of media technology. It is the first novel in the Scikungfi Trilogy along with the forthcoming Codename Prague (2009) and The Kyoto Man (2010).