Realists edition by Conrad Bishop Elizabeth Fuller Literature Fiction eBooks
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A cross-genre comic tale in the Kurt Vonnegut vein as a third of America goes clinically insane, hot-tempered Eddie sparks up an edgy romance with Pepper, a tough single mom from Oklahoma. His complaint about a phone bill targets the duo as terrorists, and a motley group of losers, loners, and seekers are tangled with their fate. Can love survive the snaggle-toothed jaws of Armageddon?
The War on Drugs has morphed into a War on Dreams (escapist! pornographic! traumatic to children!), with suppressant dosages plunging America into mass psychosis. With the small clutch of innocents, the lovers are trapped by the Feds in an elevator, and as they plunge to their deaths, a stroke of lunatic physics plops them onto a ramshackle Green Tortoise bus.
It's a cliff-hanger odyssey as America splinters to bits an elderly couple morph into Bonnie & Clyde; Chicago absconds; ghost buffalo trample a helicopter assault; a desert shaman evokes an erotic night of undreamt dreams; and the rickety bus crawls toward a deadly face-off on the Oakland Bay Bridge. On the journey, couples split and bond, small children find magic, space aliens watch it all on TV, and the passengers bond into a tribe of beautiful survivors.
Realists edition by Conrad Bishop Elizabeth Fuller Literature Fiction eBooks
Anyone who loves Kurt Vonnegut, Ray Bradbury, Phillip K. Dick, Phillip José Farmer and other masters of satirical, dystopian-yet-humanistic, hilarious and sexy sci-fi will find considerable delight in this rip-roaring, picaresque yarn from Conrad Bishop and Elizabeth Fuller."Realists" takes place in a United States that’s only a slight exaggeration of our current condition. I mean, really, what could be more satirically dystopian than the notion of a former “reality” TV star running for president
In "Realists," the government is represented by two over-the-hill and over-the-top news anchors who are anything but anchored. But they do a good deal to keep us informed about the ongoing collapse of Western Civilization and the sudden changes in the laws of physics that drive much of the narrative.
A new malleability of the space-time continuum, which no one but the proudly mad scientist Sergei Rupp understands, bring a group of strangers together on “The Blue Terrapin,” a bus bound across the country to San Francisco. There’s Smoky, the driver, still a hippie in his golden years, Eddie and Pepper, obviously destined for each other in spite of Pepper’s misgivings, her daughter, Jessie, Tonya, a bi writer, her son Loki who is the wisest human on board. There’s a few more and all are rounded, complicated people. Including the “Little green men” who make occasional appearances.
Bishop & Fuller manage to create a momentum that never flags. True, the novel weaves together many threads, but ultimately they form a rich and satisfying tapestry.
"Realists" reminded me of how much pure fun reading can be. It’s been a while since I felt a sense of loss when a book ended, but I actually miss these characters and their journey. Maybe if enough of us implore Bishop & Fuller, they’ll give us a sequel
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Realists edition by Conrad Bishop Elizabeth Fuller Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
REALISTS, by Conrad Bishop and Elizabeth Fuller, is not so much a novel as a sporadic series of political and social comments dramatically illustrated, often funny and frighteningly acute, delivered in muscular language that, blow by blow, has the charge of standup material. It sometimes veers into the metaphysical, and, toward the end, the narrative flirts with self reference. There are cameo appearances by manipulating aliens. The strongest thematic line has to do with the power of dreams indulged and dreams suppressed in a totalitarian culture. Most novels, in the early chapters, build up a thematic and emotional account, which, accruing interest in the middle section, can be drawn on and lavished at the end to reveal something new. REALISTS doesn’t work that way. Rather than developing, it ramifies, proliferates ideas, and accumulates characters who are, ex machina, thrown together in a long, culminating bus ride, not really to relate but to effervesce together. Reading REALISTS, then, is like staying up into the wee hours, surrounded by the spoils of a wild party, drinking booze from many tumblers and listening to some very clever, insightful, and verbally gifted people extemporize together.
Realists, a novel-length “fantasy,” as authors Conrad Bishop and Elizabeth Fuller designate it, could just as easily be called Surrealists and not a fantasy at all. It follows the adventures of a group of contemporary New Yorkers, including two children and their single mothers, who converge through multiple coincidences onto a bus headed for San Francisco.
Of course it’s not an ordinary bus, it’s more like a Magical Mystery Tour bus, but this is America sometime in the near future so the magic is apocalyptic terror and the tour is a flight from drones outfitted with missiles aimed to blow the bus to bits because the riders are deemed to be terrorists.
The reason? They have all stopped taking their daily NoNarx, the mandatory drug the ruling Realist Party prescribes for all citizens for the purpose of suppressing their dreams, including day dreams. When people stop dreaming, they go mad. When they start dreaming again, they become human, with human challenges, especially in relationships.
The story confused me a bit when the network newscasters shilling for the Realists become the drone operators going mad, in part because they keep missing their target. But, as the many twists and turns in this amusing ride have, at best, a secret logic within their inter-twining circles and wheels, I kept reading without trying too hard to unravel some of the more improbable transitions. After all, when a small retarded boy on the bus is secretly a shaman controlling events, including misdirecting the incoming missiles, anything can happen.
Meanwhile, the renegade bus careens across the wastelands of the American west, pulling into obscure hideaways to camp while the remaining passengers—the ones who haven’t yet disappeared into their own dreams along the way—struggle with their new-found sanity in an ever-shifting landscape not unlike a prolonged acid trip.
And no sooner do they get to San Francisco than....
But you’ll have to buy the book to find that out.
Bishop and Fuller have entertained with this psycho-mythic tale of a wild bus ride across America, reminiscent of the psychedelic 1960s. But, by projecting the 1984-type scenario all liberals, especially, fear, they have also made some serious political and social comments on the dysfunctional state of our culture in the present, all viewed through the ironic lens of an Independent Eye.
Good work, CB & EF. I enjoyed the read, especially for the smooth blend of your individual voices into a single, flowing narrative with no joints or fissures for a reader to trip over.
Anyone who loves Kurt Vonnegut, Ray Bradbury, Phillip K. Dick, Phillip José Farmer and other masters of satirical, dystopian-yet-humanistic, hilarious and sexy sci-fi will find considerable delight in this rip-roaring, picaresque yarn from Conrad Bishop and Elizabeth Fuller.
"Realists" takes place in a United States that’s only a slight exaggeration of our current condition. I mean, really, what could be more satirically dystopian than the notion of a former “reality” TV star running for president
In "Realists," the government is represented by two over-the-hill and over-the-top news anchors who are anything but anchored. But they do a good deal to keep us informed about the ongoing collapse of Western Civilization and the sudden changes in the laws of physics that drive much of the narrative.
A new malleability of the space-time continuum, which no one but the proudly mad scientist Sergei Rupp understands, bring a group of strangers together on “The Blue Terrapin,” a bus bound across the country to San Francisco. There’s Smoky, the driver, still a hippie in his golden years, Eddie and Pepper, obviously destined for each other in spite of Pepper’s misgivings, her daughter, Jessie, Tonya, a bi writer, her son Loki who is the wisest human on board. There’s a few more and all are rounded, complicated people. Including the “Little green men” who make occasional appearances.
Bishop & Fuller manage to create a momentum that never flags. True, the novel weaves together many threads, but ultimately they form a rich and satisfying tapestry.
"Realists" reminded me of how much pure fun reading can be. It’s been a while since I felt a sense of loss when a book ended, but I actually miss these characters and their journey. Maybe if enough of us implore Bishop & Fuller, they’ll give us a sequel
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