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The Feelies by Mick Farren

Mass Market Paperback in Good Condition

Edition of 1990 | "Del Rey" Edition | Ballentine Books (publisher, USA)

"A life of unending fantasy could be the ideal escape—and the ultimate prison!"—cover

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The Feelies by Mick Farren

The blurb on the back:

Some time in the future in a world of gleaming glass megastructures, interspersed with slum remains, society is set in rigid economic groups. The ultimate goal has become a lifetime in The Feelies—hooked up to sensory input machines, entombed in coffin-like structures, living out private fantasies manufactured to order.

For most it remains an impossible dream: drink, drugs and 24-hour TV blur the edges of a reality they seek to erase. Only the rich and powerful can afford the ultimate luxury of eternal feelie time. But a few like Wanda Jean have just one chance in a lifetime—to win the TV contest Wildest Dreams and take her place in the lifer vaults.

Yet even a mechanical dream can turn into a technician's nightmare—the results are literally mind-blowing.

About the Author:
For younger readers who may not know him: Mick Farren was, in the dark, dark days before punk, pretty much the coolest rock hack in Britain. Originally he wanted to be a rock star (who didn't?), but after the splintering of his band The Deviants, he instead reverted to his role as a key player in the underground press, in which capacity he found himself in 1973 in the dock at the Old Bailey defending his comic, Nasty Tales, against a charge of obscenity. To be fair, the comic was obscene by any normal definition, but what the fuck that had to do with the law remains unclear.

In his hugely recommended book Offensive Literature, John Sutherland devotes a brief chapter to the trial, and points out the acquittal was assisted by the fact that the property qualification for jury service had been abolished in 1972. Just in case the significance of that statement was missed, I'll repeat it: up until 1972—just 30 years ago at the time of writing—British citizens were not entitled to sit on a jury unless they were home-owners. What an extraordinary country this is.

Anyway, Nasty Tales was acquitted but ceased publication soon afterwards due to lack of interest, and Farren moved on to the NME, where he stood out like an anarchist hipster in a field of angsty hippies: in common with a handful of other oddities from the era—Lemmy leaps to mind—he actually made a lot more sense once punk had changed the landscape and swept all that prog nonsense away. At which stage, of course, he promptly reformed The Deviants. (from: trash fiction)

CONDITION NOTES:
Good condition mass market paperback, strong spine, some pencil writing inside front cover.

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