Dark Matter - (Dark Factory) by Kathe Koja (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

When the world ends, chaos begins-

-for feral Bunny Graves, playing life like a high-stakes game, where the only way to win is to smash the board to bit-

-for Max Caspar and Charmskool the scholar, chasing ancient myth all the way to the real world-

-and for Ari Regon, caught between dangerous jealousy and passionate love, corporate war and ambition so intense that failure is death, making the party to end all parties, a party that never ends.

Dark times.
Dark dreams.
DARK MATTER

The third and final book in the DARK FACTORY series.

Review Quotes

"Dizzyingly ambitious . . . a game of psychological cat and mouse dressed up in cyberpunk rave gear and studded with blistering insights into the art world . . . Impressive to behold." --Publishers Weekly

"Koja is uncontainable and Dark Matter is a wild ride, brilliant and utterly fucking beautiful." --Kaaron Warren, award-winning author of The Underhistory and Into Bones Like Oil

"Dark Matter is like stepping into the ultimate club. The place throbs with life, joy, and beats, while underneath the lights and moving bodies are the indispensable ingredients for ultimate kicks: extreme beauty and ever-present danger. ... Imagine JG Ballard as the wildest DJ in the club, blasting beats that hit you on a neurological level. That's Dark Matter. It's a wild book. A mysterious journey. A maximum experience." --Richard Kadrey, NYT bestselling author of Sandman Slim

"Dazzling as a blood-splattered glitter ball, Dark Matter reprises Koja's wayward darlings with pulsating intent. The speedfreak prose is a dare, a white-knuckled ride-along, accelerating towards a destination unknown. ... A tachycardia inducing addition to the Dark Factory project, loaded with frenetic seduction, moving to its own dark rhythm." --Rebecca Gransden, author of Figures Crossing the Field Towards the Group, creative director at X-Ray Literary Magazine

"Dark Matter is a vital and edifying conclusion to Kathe Koja's Dark Factory project: an apocalyptic after-hours dance party, a rebellious model of creation from ruins. Within the swirling rush of its linguistic music, it poses serious philosophical questions about the role of artists in a disintegrating world. Exuberant. Futuristic. Essential." --Mike Thorn, author of Shelter for the Damned and Darkest Hours

"In this third and final chapter of her visionary Dark Factory series, Kathe Koja invokes a pantheon for our times--art, argot and sublime near-future tech, new gods creating new realities as the world spins toward collapse at 200bpm. Like mainlining the godhead, Dark Matter is ecstatic, apocalyptic and Dionysiac AF." --J. Ashley-Smith, Shirley Jackson Award-winning author of The Measure of Sorrow

"Kathe Koja's vision and styling in her Dark Factory series has given cyberpunk a whole new lease on virtual life. Dark Matter, the third and final installment, takes us on a flickering journey into night, with the return of Felix, Ari, and Max, and especially glint-of-light-on-broken-glass, Bunny Graves--as they throb their way into our consciousness and ultimately, our hearts." --J.S. Breukelaar, author of Remedy and Collision

"Reflecting and refracting our current kaleidoscope of cataclysm, Koja summons her strongest work yet to conclude the Dark Factory trilogy. Art about art is the penultimate challenge in literature and Dark Matter is a liberating success in this rarified arena." --Tom Cardamone, author of the short story collection Momentary Aberrations and editor of Crashing Cathedrals: Edmund White by the Book

"Lyrical, frenetic and beautiful, Dark Matter is the ambitious 'post-doom culture' third installment of her Dark Factory series, continuing the pursuits and intrigues of a complex network of larger-than-life characters. Lushly written and effortlessly cool, the exclusive tech-addled world of Dark Matter is well worth the hand stamp and price of admission." --Victoria Dalpe, author of the Resurrectionist series, Les Femmes Grotesques and Parasite Life

About the Author

Kathe Koja writes novels and short fiction, and creates and produces immersive fiction performances, both solo and with a rotating ensemble of artists. Her work crosses and combines genres, and her books have won awards, been multiply translated, and optioned for film and performance. She is based in Detroit and thinks globally. She can be found at kathekoja.com.