Empire of the Senseless
Author: Kathy Acker
Desc: Set in the near future in a Paris devastated by revolution and disease Empire of the Senseless is narrated by two terrorists and occasional lovers Thivai a pirate and Abhor part-robot part-human. Together and apart the two undertake an odyssey of carnage a holocaust of erotic. "An elegy for the world of our fathers " as Kathy Acker calls it where the terrorists and the wretched of the earth are in command marching down a road charted by Genet to a Marseillaise composed by Sade.