The Old Reactor - by David Ohle (Paperback)

About the Book

A strange and twisted tale of two imaginary cities of the future

Book Synopsis

Moldenke is sent to the "free" prison town at Altobello with an indeterminate sentence. He has a rare bowel condition. Altobello is full of "Jellyheads" and features an old nuclear reactor on the edge of town. No one seems to remember what the reactor really is, until it's almost too late.

Review Quotes

Praise for The Old Reactor:

"One of the most frightening and brilliant aspects of David Ohle's futuristic novels is how eerily they parallel our own landscape." -- JA Tyler, Bomb Magazine

"Ohle's acerbic and decidedly offbeat literary dystopian novel, a follow-up to his 1972 cult classic, Motorman, describes a dogged protagonist's struggles to survive in an oppressive, stratified society... In this bleak world, Ohle's tale of the future ends on a bleak note." -- Publishers Weekly

About the Author

David Ohle's novel, Motorman, was published by Knopf in 1972 and re-released in 2004 with an introduction by Ben Marcus. Its sequel, The Age of Sinatra was published 2004, followed in 2008 by The Pisstown Chaos. He is also the author of two novellas and nonfiction titles. His short fiction has appeared in Harper's, Esquire, The Paris Review, TriQuarterly, The Missouri Review, the Pushcart Prize and elsewhere. He has taught fiction writing at the University of Texas in Austin, the University of Missouri in Columbia and currently both fiction and screenwriting at the University of Kansas in Lawrence.