THE
DNA COWBOYS TRILOGY by Mick
Farren:
£10 -1-899344 93 4
B-format (198mm x 127mm) trade paperback
£15
- 1-899344 94 2
198mm x 127mm hardback
According to underground legend, Mick Farren wrote this trilogy whilst
ingesting large doses of LSD supplied by a pharmaceutical guerrilla group
called The Midnight Brotherhood. Not true, but that the myth exists gives
an indication of the bizarre pulp fiction cult that has grown up around
these books and their author since first publication.
Written practically non-stop in 1975 and 1976 – concurrent with the
first germination of punk rock – the DNA Cowboys Trilogy offers fantastic
adventures into the unknown and unexpected.
With influences that range from Star Trek to Kung Fu and from the Marquis
de Sade to Sam Peckinpah, Farren created a bizarre universe populated
with pre-teen dictators, huge twin-brained domestic lizards and growing
biocomputers tended by martial arts-practising monks. Farren let his imagination
run wild and the results are awesome. Expect fanciful weapons, medieval
jails, public hangings, Albert Speer architecture, gunfights, stiletto
heels and femmes fatales in tight clothing, orgies, orgasms, and undefined
monsters called Disruptors that suck up all life and logic.
• ‘(Farren’s books) smell of rum and rebellion, an impalpable
haze of tobacco, gunpowder, and a whiff of burnt ozone scent that comes
from an overheated laser rifle’ – Jacob Rabinowitz
•
‘As a thinker, as a writer, as a life-long participant in the avant-garde,
he always produced original progressive work. He’s like the last
bohemian standing’ – Mim Udovitch
•
‘(The DNA Cowboys Trilogy) comes like a breath of fresh air after
all that time-warp, police box, beam-me-up bullshit’ – NME
•
‘That mad old c***. He still around?’ – Mick Jagger, quoted
in LA Weekly
MICK
FARREN was rock correspondent, leading light and sometime editor
of underground 1960s newspaper, International Times (IT); singer and founding
father of the Deviants; and is unique in winning his Nasty Tales comic
book obscenity trial. He brought the White Panther Party to the UK, and
took a leading part in the semi-revolution that turned the Isle of Wight
Festival of 1970 into a free-for-all festival. An early predictor and
precursor of punk, Farren championed its cause whilst at legendary music
paper, New Musical Express. Fleeing from Thatcher’s Britain in 1979,
he settled in New York and then LA, where he currently lives. In his time
has written 23 novels, 11 works on non-fiction (including four on Elvis)
and numerous
works of poetry.
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