Darwin Alone in the Universe

These new off-side stories continue Farrant's exploration of the relation of fiction to the evolving corporate construction of reality in the media and information age. Objective reality (what's out there) in our culture has become a performance of make-believe (fiction), and the disassociation and confusion this causes in our private lives often triggers uncontrollable tragi-comic effects in people--a deadening lethargy and/or a destructive violence acted out in a context of the most excruciatingly bright banalities. In this, or any world, literature becomes an antidote to the stranglehold the corporate media has on the public's imagination, and is the place where uncontaminated thought can still be found , "where individual voices surface relentlessly like life-rings in a wild sea.Farrant, M. A. C. is the author of 'Darwin Alone in the Universe' with ISBN 9780889224711 and ISBN 0889224714.