Out of Phaze: A Virulent ChapBook (Paperback)
"Lunar splashed. Fragile liquid wings. Spine cracking mornings. Keyboard played and fingers flitting... the upload begins... icon initialization."
So began the first phaze of a fiction experiment by author Kneel Downe.
Now, here are all twelve original "phazes" of Kneel's vivid, poetic, image-filled writing, telling the story of his post-apocalyptic world - a science fiction dystopia of human/animal genetic splicing, ReGen drugs, DreamCages and DeadBoxes, in a city where nobody has seen the sun for 50 years.
Collect all four ChapBooks and catch the VirulentBlurb - it's infectious.
Kneel was born in 1967 and raised in the middle of countryside and silence where he immersed himself in books and fantasy. After trying several writing styles, Kneel began tweeting short fragments of fiction. A meeting with his idol, Jeff Noon, made Kneel realise that these short bursts could make up a whole universe of fiction and so the VirulentBlurb projects began. First there was the website VirulentBlurb.com, introducing the world to the characters and technology of the VirulentBlurb, the Spillane-esque wolf-splice police detective, Kurt Lobo, the enigmatic Amelia and the superhero inmates of the Copper Cascades asylum. Then the books came, with each new one being totally different in style from the last, from brutal noir detective stories to beautiful mythical tales and snippets from the birth of creation to the breaking of the skies. Many, many more books and other media projects are planned as the strands of the universe overlap and come together in new and unexpected ways. VirulentBlurb is an ongoing project with new strands of fiction evolving all the time on various Twitter feeds. Visit the website for more information. "Clean your JackPorts. PolyPhase Productions thank you for gazing.."