Year Zero: A Novel by Rob Reid

Author:Rob Reid [Reid, Rob]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw3
ISBN: 9780345534484
Publisher: Random House, Inc.
Published: 2012-07-10T07:00:00+00:00

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1. It turns out that only the singers are actual Perfuffinites in Zinkiwu performances. The bands consist of several near-miss species that can pass for humans from a distance but not close-up. Everyone on stage wears sound-blocking gear, which is hidden beneath a hat or an out-sized hairstyle.

2. This is really taking authenticity seriously, given how our fashion sense revolts the Refined. It would be like pumping sewage odors into a movie theater to heighten the realism of a film set in a Calcutta slum.

3. But unlike their father, Carly and Frampton never adopted the names of their human doppelgängers. The reason was that they were already established as performers before Simply Red and the Divinyls (Chrissy Amphlett’s band) swept the universe—because like every other Perfuffinite, they had taken on the names of random human pop stars, and launched lip sync careers shortly after the Kotter Moment. Incidentally, since all of the Perfuffinites rebranded themselves at once, the celebrity names of the Kotter era still dominate their society. Manilow is almost as common among Perfuffinite men as Mohammad is among Muslims—followed by KC, Cat, Donny, Orlando, Mangione, Mercury, Frampton, Sly, and Boz. Meanwhile, Dolly, Carly, and Agnetha top the charts among Perfuffinite women.

4. Sonny turns out to be a passable practitioner of a Noble Art called “Combat Dance.” In its gentlest form, this involves the ingenious manipulation of pressure points—something that I first experienced when Carly twirled me into the omnicab while it was perched above the abyss beside her apartment.

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