Welcome to the Associated Territories in the ÔAge of the Great Misery,Õ where factory-made bio-robotic WarGIANTs roam across the irradiated New Great Plains; gangs of mutated warriors ride blood-fueled mechanical dogs through the streets of the capital city; surgeons transform workers into hyper-efficient Flesh Cubes; and monstrous, full-body orifice modifications are not only cheap and plentiful, but required for even the most basic employment.
Through this world we follow an unlikely hero: Schmitt, drudge-for hire from a neo-medievalist compound, who stumbles onto a plot that threatens to end Territorial civilizationÑsuch as it isÑonce and for all.
Pulsing in the gaping orifice of experimental science fiction, Jobs of the Great Misery is a genre-bursting work in the tradition of William Burroughs, Kathy Acker, and Samuel Delany.