Ultravioleta

By Laura Moriarty

Fiction. "ULTRAVIOLETA is in the first place a mind that is spacious, with spangled depths on the order of William Blake and Phillip K. Dick. Our Mental Travelers are shining, friendly, off-hand and amorous astronauts, humans, monsters, aliens, and constructions, and they move through the galaxy on wings of a consciousness that is more than permeable...[Moriarty] has invented a new kind of tale in which the materiality of language and the magic of story combine in ever more wondrous agreements"--Robert Gluck. Laura Moriarty has taught at Naropa University and Mills College, and is currently the Deputy Director for Small Press Distribution.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1891190245
• ISBN13: 9781891190247
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Atelos
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Brilliant Rebuttal to the Hegemony of Normative Reading

Even standard experimental fiction holds no candle to this adventure. LM sees the SF genre for what it may be: an opportunity for philosophical enactment of another way of being with language. Here writing/reading, as a symbiotic pair, become the palpable, dynamic, and self-conscious modes of understanding their interaction with their own construction not just, as is the platonic norm, out of idealized ideas but in their materialization in every instance of being linguistic in the world. The most evident enemy here, the "I", is that bland grammatical universal into which we all fall, the paradoxically public pronoun of personal identity that eradicates the differences it pretends to invoke. In short (and for those who find my abstractions unhelpful), this book is lively, fun, and life-changing: most books give us a sligghtly new story; this book gives us a very new and more expansive world. Ultravioleta is indeed a space ship.