The Cryptic Reflex

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“In The Cryptic Reflex, P. K. Garrison creates a John Huston noir, in which Indiana Jones finds himself in Jurassic Park and cyborg fauns chase maidens with prosthetic rumps. While engaging in these familiar literary genres, he invents a new one: the novel as culture romp. Garrison writes, ‘if I were somehow able to suck all the air out of this world, then my dreams would fall at exactly the same speed as the densest, most destructive force in the universe.’ Irresistible.” --Curtis White, author of The Science Delusion, We Robots, Memories of My Father Watching TV and many other books. “P. K. Garrison’s protagonist, Kendall Freegard, steps out of the modern world of Djuna Barnes and Henry Miller and into an older world akin to the worlds of Treasure Island, The Island of Dr. Moreau, and Tom’s Sawyer’s Jackson Island. Kendall is a modern woman, but when she travels to the Yemeni island of Socotra with a group of cryptozoologists in order to capture a legendary giant cobra known as the Savage of Socotra, she finds herself confronted by humanity’s misunderstood hominid past. Juxtapositions of the ancient and modern in Garrison’s tale move the reader through time and space in the manner of a ripping good yarn!” --Eckhard Gerdes, author of the novels The Pissers’ Theatre, Marco & Iarlaith, The Isolate, and The Land of Lost Simulacra, and dozens more. Published by Broken Spine Books, distributed by JEF Books Show more