In the bleak and distant future of 1996, Ziggy Floyd traffics in nostalgia. He spends his nights performing old cover songs for Martian barflies, topping them off with an illicit drug called Tar-D: a psychedelic which immerses users in vivid memories of better times.The drug is the creation of Ziggy's "uncle" Doc Katzka, a fugitive in exile from Earth--though so fried is Doc's brain that he can't recall what exactly he did to be exiled. Perhaps he can ask these armed police who've just kicked down his door. Now he and Ziggy ...
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In the bleak and distant future of 1996, Ziggy Floyd traffics in nostalgia. He spends his nights performing old cover songs for Martian barflies, topping them off with an illicit drug called Tar-D: a psychedelic which immerses users in vivid memories of better times.The drug is the creation of Ziggy's "uncle" Doc Katzka, a fugitive in exile from Earth--though so fried is Doc's brain that he can't recall what exactly he did to be exiled. Perhaps he can ask these armed police who've just kicked down his door. Now he and Ziggy must scramble to stay one step ahead of the police state--and it probably won't help that Ziggy has just been exposed to a concentrated dose of Tar-D. . . . Such is the plot of A Junkie on Mars, what purports to be a newly discovered lost work by the late cult science-fiction writer, Robert Psyck. Yet anomalies in the text lead the editor tasked with writing its foreword to suspect that there may be more to the story. Could the novel be a forgery? Or, if it is genuine, could its existence have been deliberately hidden? If so, why? As the editor's interest develops into obsession, his investigations begin to parallel those of the characters in Psyck's novel, and the line between reality and fiction begins to blur.
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