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Hammers by Ron Dakron
ISBN 978-0930773878
Hammers is a brutally funny book about the will to power, the mistakes of big science, and a rogue shark’s eternal quest for fresh squid. Hammers follows a young rocker, his sister, their mutual girlfriend and three dumb junkies throughout their mutation from hapless humans into intelligent hammerhead sharks. Set in a modern biotech city, Hammers chews up plot and language and spits out a strange and poetic hybrid. A novel not to be missed or believed.
Nico, a young geneticist, perfects a human anti-shock serum made with hammerhead shark DNA. But the FDA won’t let Nico try it on humans yet because of possible unstable genetic mutations. They want years of animal tests before she’ll be allowed to try her stunning invention! But Nico’s an ambitious pup and decides, what the hell, she’ll try it on herself. Should be safe enough. Sure. Except it seems the lab’s made a little, ahem, mistake–instead of grafting on a tiny slice of hammerhead DNA to that serum, they’ve glued the entire code on. Maki maki. Shark.
Reviews
“Dakron keeps the story moving along at a sprightly (not to say manic) clip . . . readers of his third novel (after infra and Newt) will discover a writer with a fine ear and plenty of gusto.””I was sucked into Ron Dakron’s prose and the world he created. I read the rest of the book in one sitting because he had created a world I found interesting . . . This is clearly a book better than the sum of it’s parts. I do recommend that you check it out and … let yourself get sucked into the tale Dakron is weaving.”
—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1997
“Ne plus ultra bizarre, man! With cartilaginous prose, soft as fishbone, sense-bending and scattershot as a Robin Williams shtick where lost meanings blast by, Dakron’s third [novel] follows the comet trails of Infra and Newt with a morphological plot out of Ovid by way of Kafka.”
—KIRKUS REVIEWS, AUGUST 15, 1997
“Here’s Mr. Dakron’s fine recent book of fiction, alive and scathing and funny and sexy . . . It’s a cross between jive bullshit, hip-hop Henny Youngman, and full-tilt Rimbaudian street-smartass sublimity . . . If you like relentless, lightning-fast, oh-so-witty prose, you’ll like the book.”
—POINT NO POINT, SPRING/SUMMER 1998
“Hammers with its unraveling sentences and unthreaded DNA helix is…an anti-novel in the tradition of Lawrence Stern, William Burroughs, and John Barth. According to Ron Dakron, language isn’t a virus so much as bit rot…Hammers is a series of images generated by flipping the TV channel, a peanut brickel of cultural garbage, a parody of our current state of information disease; this is a black parable involving an incestuous threesome, mass consumption of fish burgers, and the corruption of DNA…Ron Dakron infuses the novel with a warped energy. The language of the book doesn’t feel like a deliberate construction but rather as a literal transcription of the narrator’s hybrid brain. It’s a novel as Tourette’s Syndrome. Hammers is a corrupt piece of information, as sinister as a thirteen year old with a lighter and a keg of butane.”
—MATT BRIGGS, RAVEN CHRONICLES, APRIL 1998
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