An accident at a secret germ warfare laboratory allows a deadly vapour to infect all of Southern England. The vapour is an aphrodisiac that releases every pent-up human urge. Within twenty-four hours society self-destructs in a vast orgy of lust, aggression, and psychosis, as men and women everywhere act out their deepest, weirdest obsessions.
ÔThe GasÕ is a work of vicious satire and blackest humour, offering little comfort from the relentless horror, other than very bleak laughter at its absurdism. A serious, although hysterically funny, work that deserves to sit next to ÔNaked LunchÕ, ÔClockwork OrangeÕ and ÔThe Kindly OnesÕ in its merciless exploration of our darkest impulses, and what humans are capable of under the right Ð or wrong - circumstances.
Incunabula is reprinting this book now as we feel that in the current climate of rampant unreason, itÕs more relevant than ever before., scifi, postmodern, surrealism, satire, absurdism, dada, Charles Michael Platt| 9781257815678 | 274PAGES