- Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: Earthlight; paperback / softback edition (4 Oct 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0671037196
- ISBN-13: 978-0671037192
- Product Dimensions: 17.2 x 11 x 2.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 709,389 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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When the Venusians arrived, it all changed. A psychogeographic event caused the old west of the USA to separate from the rest of the planet. Now, in the 1950s, gunslingers and shootists still ply their trade, good-time girls hang out in bars and no modern technology will work,
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Richard Calder's 6th novel is a bizarre science fiction western story, telling the tale of a young runaway girl who seeks to lose herself in the company of a gunslinger who cheated death and the Venusian 'necrobabe' who covets his soul. Certain themes are familiar from Calder's past outings (particularly 'Cythera' and 'Frenzetta'), with this being the story of another pair of lovers fleeing from authority towards a celestial haven that can only be reached in death, but the setting - a millions of miles long Wild West gateway that has been grafted between 1950's America and Venus - is certainly unique enough to make this more than a rehashing of past novels. With so many storytelling excesses 'The Twist' occasionally lurches too far into broad comicstrip territory (witness a bizarre moment when our heroes are confronted with a bomb about to go off in 60 seconds, then spend a good ten pages wandering around making verbose speeches, before still managing to flee in time), but the thread of young runaway Nicola's quest for transformation in death and her ultimate fate make for a moving finale. Utterly mad science fiction - truly the West has never been THIS wild before...
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