D. Harlan Wilson - Dr. Identity (Scikungfi Trilogy)

Dr. Id-entity,

OR,

Farewell to Plaquedemia,

A

P U L P S C I E N C E F I C T I O N

N O V E L.

Book One of the Scikungfi Trilogy

T H E F I R S T E D I T I O N

Edited by Dr. Master Master Stanley Ashenbach Esquire

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acclaim for d. harlan wilson & dr. identity

D. Harlan Wilson is my favorite author. His books are really great!

Franz Kafka

Amazing. Brilliant. Dr. Identity blew me away.

Walter Cronkite

Postmodernism is dead. D. Harlan Wilson is alive.

Fredric Jameson

Science fiction this gripping is a rare thing. Think Quentin Tarantino meets Isaac Asimov. Think William Gibson meets Jorge Luis Borges. Think the Macho Man Randy Savage body slams George Orwell. In this gritty, gruesome technoir, Wilson depicts an imploded world in which humanity has succumbed to the mistress of technology: people willfully replace themselves with androids on a daily basis, jetpacks and propeller beanies are the dominant mode of transportation, members of the Papanazi are more numerous than businessmen, and ultraviolent scikungfi fights materialize on every seedy street corner and flyway. Dr. Identity is the next evolutionary stage in literature. A dangerous read in every way.

The Boston Post

Breathtaking prose. Wilson is the real deal. And hes not even gay!

Gertrude Stein

Breathtaking prose. Wilson is the real deal. And hes not even gay!

Ernest Hemingway

I wish I could write fiction like that fuckin D. Harlan Wilson!

Vladimir Nabokov

Dr. Wilson is a plaquedemic to be reckoned with. His writing will kick your ass and take your nameAgent Smith style.

Hugo Weaving

Oui oui!

The Paris Review

Theres 99.9% of the science fiction genre, and theres D. Harlan Wilson.
Amazing Stories

Wilson is an episteme in and of himself. History is history because he says so.

Michel Foucault

Dr. Identity is an original book with a unique plot and lots of suspense.
Condoleezza Rice

This novel is too mindblowing, too inconceivable, too utterly perfect to actually exist. I dont believe in this novel, and you cant make me.

Norman Mailer

In Wilson, the twenty-first century has found its first and last authentic voice.

Fortnightly Review

I cant say enough about this book! I laughed all the way through it! Ha! I dont really understand it. It doesnt go in a straight line, as it were. It has no discernable purpose and the characters are as flat as manholes. But its so goddamn funny! Ha!

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Is D. Harlan Wilson a cartoon?

Philip K. Dick

D. Harlan Wilson is Philip K. Dicks ghost.

Horselover Fat

Monstrous. Beautiful.

Newsweek

If I have another party, Im asking D. Harlan Wilson to buy the flowers.

Virginia Woolf

Dr. Identity is like my chicken: fingerlickin good.

Colonel Sanders

Badass.

Lance Henriksen

The most important book of the twenty-first century. Probably the most important book ever written. Dr. Identity reaches new literary heights. A truly remarkable work written by a bona fide genius.

The Daily Standard

My son is talented and artistic and smart and a marvelous teacher!

D. Harlan Wilsons Mom

What can I say? Dr. Identity is what happens when you do it like Big Daddy Wilson.

Jacques Derrida

If I werent me, Id want to be D. Harlan Wilson.

Igsnay Brdd

Quick-witted, misogynistic commedia del foul at its best.

James Fenimore Cooper

D. Harlan Wilson is very tall. Hes like six and a half feet tall!

Kathy Acker

A narratological feat of strength.

Nickelodeon

Scientifiction of the utmost caliber.

John W. Campbell

D. Harlans kiss is on my list.

Daryl Hall

Not an Oprah book.

Oprah Winfrey

Professor Wilson is a big fan of my musicals. He always talks about me. Last year he taught Cats in a LACT (Literature about Creatures with Tails) course. He sends me postcards all the time. Once he sent me a singing telegram for my birthday. How bad could his writing be?

Andrew Lloyd Weber

Enter the quixotic cityscape of Bliptown, home to a nameless English professor and his psychotic mechanical sidekick. Following the accidental murder of a student, the Dystopian Duo, as the media calls them, set out on a dazzling journey to the end of the nightNothing is taboo here. Taboo is a normative condition, in fact. And yet Dr. Identity is among the classiest, most sophisticated works ever writtenat once a cult favorite and a canonical jewel.

Le Figaro

No one writes gooder than D.!

John Steinbeck

Wilsons Puerto Rican roots really come out in his debut novel. An elegiac and moving storyteller, he has a real genius for the material of personal experienceUnforgettable, rich and lively.

Vogue

D. Harlan Wilsons prose can cut tin cans in half.

Grover Cleveland

Dr. Identity deserves to be read aloud by me. This book and my larynx were born for one another.

Charlton Heston

I have to admit, next to this remarkable novel, Invisible Man looks like a Harlequin Romance.

Ralph Ellison

Dr. Identity is the chicest, manliest character to hit the bookshelves since Jane Austens Mr. Darcy.

Las Vegas Weekly

Yo D.!

Fritz Lang

D. Harlan Wilson is a sentient exclamation point.

Stanley Ashenbach

The special effects in this book put films like The Matrix and its successors to shame. Eat your heart out Keanu! Sometimes the action seems a bit too choreographed for its own good, but thats a small price to pay for this stunning tour de force of contemporary bookmaking. Dr. Identity deserves a catalog of sequels the likes of the Friday the 13th series. Other Winter blockbusters will shrink in comparison. Wilson cleverly pulls back curtain after curtain only to expose another curtain. His novel is kinetic, atmospheric, moody, dark, creamy, and downright hilarious (not to mention elaborately plotted, androgynously gorgeous, and brilliantly realized). Finally a piece of literature that delivers.

Curious George Journal

A gold-plated toilet bowl of sci-fi meatloaf.

Meatloaf

Unrelenting suspense. Unabashed foresight.

The Teufelsdrckh Review

The future is Dr. Identity.

Alfred Bester

Pussies dont read D. Harlan Wilson.

Gary Busey

Sensational and singularly convincing.

Fantastic Story Quarterly

Wow. This is some book.

Thomas Pynchon

A real edge-of-your-seat page-turnerStark and grippingAbsorbingChillingComplex and convincingAwe-inspiring[Wilson] brings the food to the table and eats it all himselfRelentlessly intense. Kung fu (not to mention Asian culture in general) will never be the sameIgnites like a flamethrower, burns like a forest fireImpossible to put downA terrific readCompassionate, superbly [argued,] [fluidly writtenFascinating]OriginalMore fun than a pocket full of dynamite.

Life Magazine

I like his verbs. His nouns and prepositions are ok. But his verbs are straight outta Schoolhouse Rock!

Fifth Grade Student

Few authors have the ability to deploy gerunds with the skill and precision of D. Harlan Wilson.

William Strunk, Jr.

Wilson is a scumbag, and his new novelI wont even say its nameis basically a fictionalized version of Mein Kampf . This author is a menace and a shiteating pimp. Given the opportunity I would rip out his Adams apple and piss on his corpse. If ever a book should be burned, this is the one.

Anne Coulter

Murder achieves new heights in Dr. Identity . At last, here is a piece of literature that articulates the prickly art of death-dealing with a sense of style. Ha ha ha goes Saucy Jack.