Hypercapitalism and Other Tales of Planetary Madness - Vaccari, Andrés
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What do ghost hunters in the Middle East, downtrodden office clerks in love with machines, cyborg media barons and sentient, bloodthirsty insects have in common? They all populate the astonishing short stories of Andrés Vaccari. Collected in Hypercapitalism and Other Tales of Planetary Madness, Vaccari's worlds are disturbing and unpredictable. Part science fiction, part horror, part speculation, these delicate pieces of narrative engineering will make you think twice about looking in the mirror.

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What do ghost hunters in the Middle East, downtrodden office clerks in love with machines, cyborg media barons and sentient, bloodthirsty insects have in common? They all populate the astonishing short stories of Andrés Vaccari. Collected in Hypercapitalism and Other Tales of Planetary Madness, Vaccari's worlds are disturbing and unpredictable. Part science fiction, part horror, part speculation, these delicate pieces of narrative engineering will make you think twice about looking in the mirror.
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Autorenporträt
Andrés Vaccari is the author of Robotomy (Saturn Press, 1997), Smoky: Relato de Muerte, Exilio y terror (Borde Perdido, 2022), El Enjambre y las Sombras (EMB, 2018, Regional Narrative Award), Hypercapitalism and Other Tales of Planetary Madness (Wanton Sun 2023) and Suicidados (Diotima 2024). His short stories have been published in Spanish and English, and he's the author of two stage plays and a multimedia performance piece, Nothing Here But Shadows (2019-2024). Andrés obtained his Doctorate in Philosophy from Macquarie University with a thesis on Descartes and the links between posthumanism and mechanistic biology. He's worked for universities in Australia and Argentina as a researcher and lecturer, and his academic papers have appeared in many international journals and books. Andrés is also an accomplished musician and the leader of the industrial-gothic collective Machinic Demiurge.