Flying Saucers Are Real is a catalogue of the Jack Womack UFO library and a history of one of the 20th century's most pervasive subcultures.
Jack Womack Book order
While Womack's fiction may be determinedly non-cyber, its commitment to using SF as a vehicle for social critique gives it a distinctly punky edge. His work is packed with grimly amusing social satire and powerful little allegories that explore urban breakdown, class war, and racial tensions. Womack is deeply interested in basic economics and politics, going further than the average science fiction writer.
- 2016
- 2002
Going, Going, Gone
- 224 pages
- 8 hours of reading
Set in 1968, the story follows Walter Bullitt, a government freelancer who tests psychotropics on himself and others without remorse. His moral compass is challenged when he's asked to sabotage Bobby Kennedy's campaign, complicated by the arrival of supernatural elements in his life. Two enigmatic women pull him into a mission to save New York, intertwining personal and political stakes. Jack Womack's novel is praised for its cleverness and serves as a fitting conclusion to the Ambient series, offering a sharp critique of contemporary America.
- 1998
Heathern
- 224 pages
- 8 hours of reading
Set in a dystopian future, the narrative follows Thatcher Dryden, a former drug kingpin turned corporate leader, as he aims to deliver a manufactured Messiah to a desperate world. However, Lester Macaffrey, a schoolteacher performing genuine miracles in the Lower East Side, defies control. As Dryden's team plots to commercialize salvation, his mistress becomes captivated by Macaffrey, leading to unexpected transformations that could alter the course of humanity. The story combines dark humor with a critique of corporate greed and media influence.
- 1997
A savagely brilliant novel of apocalypse, redemption, and rock 'n' roll by the acclaimed author of Ambient, Terraplane, and Heathern. Elvissey is the story of a troubled couple who voyage across time on a desperate mis sion--to kidnap the young Elvis Presley and make him a demigod in a decadent urban future.
- 1997
Let's Put the Future Behind Us
- 310 pages
- 11 hours of reading
Murder, mafia and the scramble for money in the new Russia. A brilliantly received satire - achingly funny, deeply disturbing.
- 1995
Lola Hart is an ordinary girl living a comfortable life in near-future Manhattan, until her family's life falls apart under the pressures of a city and country that is spinning out of control. Faced with the pressures of surviving any way she can, and surrounded by the new language and violence of the streets, Lola metamorphoses into a street-wise hustler.
