{"product_id":"herovits-world-9798986547985","title":"Herovit's World","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Barry N. Malzberg | Paul Di Filippo | D. Harlan Wilson\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Anti-Oedipus Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Anti-Oedipus Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Satire\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJonathan Herovit used to be a rising star in science fiction. Now he's paralyzed by domestic anxieties, creative exhaustion, and an industry that happily consumes its own. Haunted by his wife's post-partum depression, hobbled by his own worsening alcoholism, and mocked by the impossible deadline of a novel he cannot bring himself to face, Herovit retreats further and further into the margins of his life. Then things get truly strange: Kirk Poland-Herovit's hard-boiled, hyper-competent pseudonym-begins to speak to him, critique him, threaten him, and offer a seductive alternative to everything the author hates about himself, fracturing the divide between person and persona. What follows is Barry N. Malzberg at his most incisive and self-lacerating: a comedic nightmare of writerly neurosis, genre politics, and the psychoses baked into American professional life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1973, Herovit's World remains uncannily contemporary. The teeth of Malzberg's satire have only grown sharper with time in his most self-reflexive novel, which exposes the anxieties of late-capitalist creativity, fan culture, toxic ambition, and the paranoid machinery of pulp publishing. This anti-oedipal edition includes a foreword by D. Harlan Wilson, an introduction by Paul Di Filippo, and an afterword by Malzberg himself-one of the last pieces he wrote before logging out of reality's submission portal in 2024.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Anti-Oedipus Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46861098516631,"sku":"9798986547985","price":1687.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798986547985.webp?v=1769960671","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/herovits-world-9798986547985","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}