'Maggie Roche is an out-of-work poet and single mother. Spied on by a cyborged rat, attacked, drugged into panic and rapture, seduced, drawn into conspiracy, she's flung four thousand years into her own future. In the alien world of the Ull–Upload Lifeform Lords who are human-machine hybrids of overwhelming power–she learns that she is history's first true time traveler, hunted by friend and foe to the end of time. The entire future of the cosmos will be reset by these terrifying events. The Judas Mandala introduced the terms "virtual reality" and "virtual matrix," anticipating Frank Tipler's influential Omega Point Theory, William Gibson's cyberpunk fiction, and The Matrix ... A new Afterword describes the strange publishing history of this ground-breaking novel, and includes the full text of an omitted chapter.'
Source: ABR.
Epigraph (Gateway ed.):
I am waiting for rain
I am waiting for it to rain
I want blood
scalps that made me into
a marriageable item a woman
who needs a man a transgressor
of the moral authority of
male supremacy, a prison is
only twenty years back time
machine, I need nobody but a sicilian revenge,
no triumph.
KATE JENNINGS
Hyperdreams: Damien Broderick's Space/ Time Fiction
New Lambton
:
Nimrod Publications
,
1998
Z422966
1998
single work
criticism
Hyperdreams: Damien Broderick's Space/ Time Fiction
New Lambton
:
Nimrod Publications
,
1998
Z422966
1998
single work
criticism
