✍ Scribed by Oliver Langmead
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Nella città di Vox non c’è luce. Una stella nera, la Dark Star, sovrasta gli esseri viventi che si trascinano nel buio come fantasmi. Solo nei quartieri ricchi c’è un po’ di chiarore, e a goderne sono i possessori dei tre Cuori, le tre fonti di energia: Aquila, Corvus e Cancer.
Il detective Virgil Yorke e l’amico Dante indagano su un caso misterioso: la giovane Vivian North è stata trovata morta con le vene inondate di luce liquida. Ma non può trattarsi solo di Prometeo, la droga più diffusa a Vox. Cosa c’è dietro questo omicidio?
Oliver Langmead si lancia nell’impresa ardita di creare un “poema moderno” innestando la rapidità, il cut-up, l’immediatezza sull’epicità dei vecchi poemi e sperimentando linguaggi nuovi. Ne viene fuori un’opera punk-rock in un mondo alla Blade Runner, tra fantascienza e detective story.
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