But n Ben A-go-go Matthew Fitt

But n Ben A-go-go by Matthew Fitt

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Scotland has sunk 300 feet under water as a result of God's flood. Only the Drylands are left. The population live on Port, a collection of floating cities. A highly virulent strain of HIV has made all intimate contact deadly, and Paolo Broon is determined to find out who infected his wife. Science fiction novel written in Scots.

But n Ben A-go-go by Matthew Fitt

The year is 2090. Global flooding has left most of Scotland under water. The descendants of those who survived God's Flood live in a community of floating island parishes, known collectively as Port. Port's citizens live in mortal fear of Senga, a supervirus whose victims are kept in a giant hospital warehouse in sealed capsules called Kists. Paolo Broon is a low-ranking cyberjanny. His life-partner, Nadia, lies forgotten and alone in Omega Kist 624 in the Rigo Imbeki Medical Center. When he receives an unexpected message from his radge criminal father to meet him at But n Ben A-Go-Go, Paolo's life is changed forever. He must traverse VINE, Port and the Drylands and deal with rebel American tourists and crabbit Dundonian microchips to discover the truth about his family's past in order to free Nadia from the sair grip of the merciless Senga. Set in a distinctly unbonnie future-Scotland, the novel's dangerous atmosphere and psychologically-malkied characters weave a tale that both chills and intrigues. In But n Ben A-Go-Go Matthew Fitt takes the allegedly dead language of Scots and energises it with a narrative that crackles and fizzes with life.

'The most talked about book in the Scottish publishing world... a springboard for inventiveness... if you can't get hold of a copy, mug somebody' MARK STEPHEN, SCOTTISH CONNECTION, BBC RADIO SCOTLAND 'I have no Scots... but I can, with occasional hiccups, read Fitt's offering and am doing so with much enjoyment.' KATIE GRANT, THE TIMES 'I began to think and sometimes dream in Scots.' GREGOR STEELE, TIMES EDUCATIONAL SUPPLEMENT 'easier to read than Shakespeare, and twice the fun.' DES DILLON 'Matthew Fitt will do for prose in Scots what Hugh MacDlarmid did for poetry in Scots' JAMES ROBERTSON 'a cracker' GERALDINE BRENNAN, TIMES EDUCATIONAL SUPPLEMENT 'going where no man has gone before' STEPHEN NAYSMITH, THE HERALD 'not a traditional rustic tale... I could understand quite a lot of that' (SUE MACGREGOR); 'the last man who tried anything like this was Hugh MacDiarmid' (MICHAEL FRY), TODAY PROGRAMME, BBC RADIO 4 'After an initial shock, readers of this sprightly and imaginative tale will begin to relish its verbal impetus, where a standard Lallans, laced with bits of Dundonian and Aberdonian, is stretched and skelped to meet the demands of cyberjannies and virtual hoorhooses... I recommend an entertaining and groundbreaking book.' EDWIN MORGAN

But n Ben A-go-go Matthew Fitt

But n Ben A-go-go by Matthew Fitt

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