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Moscoe Does Not Believe in Fears

When superstar TV journalist Lech Hammond heard rumors that the Martian Soviets had uncovered an alien artifact, he shipped out to Mars to investigate. But the KGB had the discovery under wraps, and with a serial killer on the loose and wild men rampaging near their secret base, they had closed ranks tighter than ever.

Hammond and his news crew were determined to break the story to the people of Earth. They never suspected that death stalked them and madness awaited them - or that, in a horrible way, the story had already been broken...

The Earth has been invaded by an advanced alien species, who views both the planet and its peoples as expendable pawns in a galaxy wide war. The "Protector" is the alien appointed ruler of the humanity.

It is a grim and sad world, humans struggle to survive a collapsing economy, political rivalry, rebellious soldiers, and hostile aliens.

Near-future America: The president was a preacher, the constitution had been suspended, and strong-arm deacons sent sinners and malcontents to prison.

Harry Carlisle: disaffected New Yok cop, walking a thin line between obediance and heresy. Cynthia Kline: Secret Agent in the deacon organization, terrified that any moment her cover might be blown. Charlie Mansard: Special-effects wizard, risking everything to create the most spectacular holographic show ever for the president's greatest rival.

They never suspected the key roles they would play in a plot to overthrow the government and restore freedom. And they never dreamed that they would be smack in the middle of the chaos when everything fell apart...

The stuff that dreams are made of...

Marlowe lived a life of fantasy while out in the real world a robot proxy contributed to the economy on his behalf. Marlowe's thing was the Forties and Bogart, and he was true to the image--down to the trench coat and the dingy "office" where he lived with his cat, Greenstreet. But he had never had a real case until a leggy looker dressed to the nines--Forties style--asked him to find her missing sister.

Suddenly he was on the run for his life, a pawn in a high stakes game for the control of off-Earth development. All Marlowe wanted was to return to his own comfortable world of make-believe. But first he would have to take good hard look at reality--for if couldn't find a way for both sides to win, everyone would lose...

Primitive men kidnapped from earth to fight as soldiers for an alien race known as the Therem, decide to rebel against their masters and strike out on their own.

Table of Contents:

• 9 - Introduction (The DNA Cowboys Trilogy) - essay by Mick Farren
• 13 - The Quest of the DNA Cowboys - [Jeb Stuart Ho - 1] - (1976) - novel by Mick Farren
• 185 - Synaptic Manhunt - [Jeb Stuart Ho - 2] - (1976) - novel by Mick Farren
• 385 - The Neural Atrocity - [Jeb Stuart Ho - 3] - (1977) - novel by Mick Farren

Welcome To the West That's Wilder Than Even Your Weirdest Nightmares!

From the remote township of Pleasant Gap stride Billy and Reave, the DNA Cowboys. Reproduction pistols in their hands, portable generators at their belts, they hit the long trail winding through the molecular dissolution of the Nothings, teetering on the edge of non-existence, to Graveyard, the wheelfreaks' paradise, Dogbreath, home of the blue-scaled whores, Port Judas, Puritan outpost, through Dropville and the hippy immortals to the terror city of Akio-Tech.

Scraps of contemporary myth, fragments of futuristic horror, strange imaginings and bright strands of story-telling ebb, flow, float, jostle and synthesize into this, the first volume of Mick Farren's dazzling DNA Cowboys Trilogy.

In his spartan cell, brother Jeb Stuart Ho comes out of terminal meditation. Quietly, he straps on his sword and flexes the hands that deal death. The brotherhood's computer has spoken, and he must carry out its orders. His mission will take him out into the sick, post-cataclysmic world, to the pleasure-city of Litz, with its Sex-O-Mars, its Torture Parlours, its genetically-bred whores, where Billy and Reeve, the DNA Cowboys, have found their private hells. It is in Litz that he must find a woman with the artificially-arrested body-growth of a thirteen-year-old girl and the mind of a sadistic megalomaniac — and kill her before she can drag the human race to final destruction. Brutal, shocking and terrifying in its visions, Synaptic Manhunt is the second volume in Mick Farren's devastating science fiction trilogy which opened with the brilliant The Quest of the DNA Cowboys and concludes with The Neural Atrocity. First published in 1976, this digital edition of Synaptic Manhunt has a new introduction by the author and is embedded with audio content. 'Story or essay, poem or rock song, they all carry the same fierce engagement which has never left this determinedly self-invented individualist whether arguing his case at the Old Bailey or strutting his stuff on stage at London's Roundhouse. Read him and rage' Michael Moorcock 'At 68, Mick Farren links back to an era when giants like Burroughs, Thompson and Morrison still strode the earth, and rock 'n' roll outsider poetry were linked, along with wider, more amorphous notions of youth-as-rebel-culture and drugs-as-shamanic-tools, standing firm against the rapacious advances of the military-industrial greedheads and all who serve them' Ben Graham, Bleeding Cheek Press 'Mick Farren writes lovely prose' Germaine Greer 'Mick Farren has had a long illustrious career as an infamous editor, journalist and English rock star... (He) has important points to make about the times we live in' New York Paper 'Farren's fertile imagination has a snaggle-toothed bite all of its own' NME 'You cannot believe a word Mick Farren says' John Lydon

The conclusion to the saga of the DNA Cowboys. The travellers continue their exploration of the world, this time dealing with a mad tyrant.

A sequel to a series of 70s science fiction novels in which the Minstrel Boy is being hunted by crazed assassins. Reave is wanted as a deserter and Billy Oblivion fears that he is losing his mind. For the first time, the end seems to be in sight. Mick Farren also wrote "Their Master's War".

"...Doc took a hamster run on a wheel of paranoia. He was wide open, exposed on every side. His reputation was shit. If they wanted him for a patsy, fuck it, they only needed to send a goddamned meter maid. No need for an extended set-up or charade, Doc was a scapegoat for the asking. Fourteen Valium had finally put him to sleep, but then he was unable to wake from the nightmare. And it was some fucking nightmare. Usually Doc came out of bad dreams screaming, but in this one, he was screaming going in."