Elizabeth Hand is the author of 'Winterlong' and 'Waking the Moon' - widely acclaimed both in Britain and the States. She lives in Maine, USA.
An audacious exploration of the violent margins and decadent centre of a world giving birth to a new millennium. Will it be still-born or new-born?
It is 1999. The Last Days say some; The First, claim others. The climate is warming, the evening skies are awash with dreamy, multi-coloured lights, and underground cults are preparing for the frenzy of all frenzies - The Night of the Thousand Years.
Jack Finnegan, the world's last literary publisher, is dying of AIDS; Trip Marlowe, VR rock star, is dying from too many mind-expanding excursions courtesy of IZE; and Leonard Thrope is coming to town with his wonderful life-restoring elixir.
Trippy sex, new age revivals and the hottest hallucinogens the imagination can buy - it must be the time of the Glimmering.
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