Writing an online "walk-through" to a computer game of Borgesian complexity can take up a lot of time. So much so, it can be difficult to see things turning sour in the real world. As our narrator grapples with his players' guide, life starts to intrude in troublesome ways. Things aren’t going so well with the live-in girlfriend and the job preparing "cooked circular food" is getting increasingly hard to stomach. To top it all, the best friend is clearly depressed and acting weirder by the day. But despite all this, his attention is focused on the Broken Worldan engrossing, possibly addictive, adventure that takes him from town to town in a struggle with zombies, agents, puzzles, and mysteries. It’s not clear which of these worldsthe real or the onlineis the more challenging, or where survival tips are more urgently needed. What is clear is that he must work out solutions to problems involving life, love, and happiness, not just in the Broken World, but in the real one too.

The Broken World

Literature & Fiction

Etchells, Tim

Contemporary

RANDOM HOUSE UK

What is the relationship between performance and play? Between performance and technology? Between performance and death? Certain Fragments is an extraordinary exploration of what lies at the heart of contemporary theatre. Written by the artistic director of Forced Entertainment, acknowledged to be Britains most brilliant experimental theatre company (Guardian), Certain Fragments investigates the processes of devising performance, the role of writing in an interdisciplinary theatre, and the influence of the city on contemporary art practice. Tim Etchells unique and provocative voice shifts from intimate anecdote to critical analysis and back again. And as in his theatre-making so in his book: with Certain Fragments Etchells disrupts traditional notions of creative, academic, and intellectual work. The book is an exciting and radical fusion of story-telling and criticism. It also makes available, for the first time, four seminal Forced Entertainment texts by Etchells.

Certain Fragments: Texts and Writings on Performance

Humor & Entertainment

Routledge

For fans of Douglas Coupland and J.G. Ballard, The Broken World is an extremely original, off-beat novel – part fiction, part computer game – about life, love and happiness, not just in the real world, but in the online one too.

William Heinemann

The Dream Dictionary for the modern dreamer is an indispensable guide for modern dreamers everywhere. Featuring one thousand new entries and interpretations, the dictionary concentrates on those aspects of contemporary life and dreaming which other dictionaries have neglected. Rather than concentrate on those archetypal features of human existence (chairs, tables, fire, love and falling), The Dream Dictionary is the first significant reference work devoted to explaining the particular, the transitory and the specifically contemporary as in may appear in the world of our dreams. What is the meaning of the dream in which one touches, without meaning to, the hand of a fellow traveler on an underground train? What does it mean to dream of a telethon, a modem, or the former Soviet Union? Or to dream that someone you love dearly is tying to barcode scan your eyes? All these and many other modern dreams are fully interpreted in The Dream Dictionary that combines abundant exemplification with useful analysis.

The Dream Dictionary for the Modern Dreamer

Religion & Spirituality

Duckbacks

Tim Etchells' Dream Dictionary for the Modern Dreamer is at once a mischievous glimpse into the contemporary subconscious and a playful, irreverent portrait of 21st-century life. The dictionary concentrates on those aspects of contemporary life and dreaming, which other dictionaries have neglected. Rather than concentrate on those archetypal features of human existence (chairs, tables, fire, love and falling), The Dream Dictionary is the first significant reference work devoted to explaining the particular, the transitory and the specifically contemporary as in may appear in the world of our dreams. What is the meaning of a dream in which one touches, without meaning to, the hand of a fellow traveler on an underground train? What does it mean to dream of a telethon, a modem, or the former Soviet Union? Or that someone you love dearly is trying to barcode-scan your eyes? The Dream Dictionary will answer all these questions and more.

The Dream Dictionary: For the Modern Dreamer

Kings, lords, liars, usherettes, goal-hangers, gun-men and prostitutes, Whether or not these stories bear any relation to life as it is lived in Endland (sic) is not my problem and good riddance to all those what prefer to read about truly good, lucky and nice people - you won't like this crap at all. A series of cautionary tales for our digital age,Endland is comical and brutal, set in strangely familiar locations that at times seem like Thatcher-era Northern towns under military rule or post-Brexit council estates after a Farage party bender. And things are leaking into Endland from all over the place. Nothing is stable. Now is also then and next year, a landscape that is future and medieval at the same time. What's more, the gods have started drinking at lunchtime, which can only lead to trouble. In narratives working a bit like poetry orcartoons, in empty tower blocks, midnight diners and bomb-site cities, Endland is a dysfunctional mirror of England. The world fashioned by Thatcher, Google, IFOR, ICANN, Brexit,Big Brother, Bin Laden and Trump needs new tools to navigate them. These grotesque stories are close to the bone, and help us get close to the heart of the times we are living in.

Endland

Humor & Satire

And Other Stories

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Books by Etchells, Tim

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The Broken World

Certain Fragments: Texts and Writings on Performance

Certain Fragments: Texts and Writings on Performance

The Broken World

The Dream Dictionary for the Modern Dreamer

The Dream Dictionary: For the Modern Dreamer

Certain Fragments: Texts and Writings on Performance

Certain Fragments: Texts and Writings on Performance

Endland