Dark Matter

Praise for Dark Matter

“Koja is uncontainable and Dark Matter is a wild ride, brilliant and utterly fucking beautiful.”
KAARON WARREN, award-winning author of The Underhistory and Into Bones Like Oil

“Dark Matter is like stepping into the ultimate club. The place throbs with life, joy, and beats, while underneath the lights and moving bodies are the indispensable ingredients for ultimate kicks: extreme beauty and ever-present danger. Life explodes off each page so it’s less like reading a novel and more like being enveloped in a world rushing by, pulling you along on its twisted journey. Dark Matter lays out a fascinating, fast paced story with memorable characters, all brought to life in intimate and even, at points, seductive prose. It’s also punctuated with complex graphics that turn it into a kind of multimedia event. But it isn’t all glittering surfaces. Dark Matter is a trip to the center of its world, inviting you into the swirling center. Imagine JG Ballard as the wildest DJ in the club, blasting beats that hit you on a neurological level. That’s Dark Matter. It’s a wild book. A mysterious journey. A maximum experience.”
RICHARD KADREY, NYT bestselling author of Sandman Slim

“Dazzling as a blood-splattered glitter ball, Dark Matter reprises Koja’s wayward darlings with pulsating intent. The speedfreak prose is a dare, a white-knuckled ride-along, accelerating towards a destination unknown. In Bunny Graves we are gifted a creation dripping with mystique, willpower behind shades, savvy with dangerous charm, untold charisma in savage boots. A tachycardia inducing addition to the Dark Factory project, loaded with frenetic seduction, moving to its own dark rhythm.”
REBECCA GRANSDEN, author of Figures Crossing the Field Towards the Group, creative director at X-Ray Literary Magazine

“Dark Matter is a vital and edifying conclusion to Kathe Koja’s Dark Factory project: an apocalyptic after-hours dance party, a rebellious model of creation from ruins. Within the swirling rush of its linguistic music, it poses serious philosophical questions about the role of artists in a disintegrating world. Exuberant. Futuristic. Essential.”
MIKE THORN, author of Shelter for the Damned and Darkest Hours

“In this third and final chapter of her visionary Dark Factory series, Kathe Koja invokes a pantheon for our times—art, argot and sublime near-future tech, new gods creating new realities as the world spins toward collapse at 200bpm. Like mainlining the godhead, Dark Matter is ecstatic, apocalyptic and Dionysiac AF.”
J. ASHLEY-SMITH, Shirley Jackson Award-winning author of The Measure of Sorrow

“Kathe Koja’s vision and styling in her Dark Factory series has given cyberpunk a whole new lease on virtual life. Dark Matter, the third and final installment, takes us on a flickering journey into night, with the return of Felix, Ari, and Max, and especially glint-of-light-on-broken-glass, Bunny Graves—as they throb their way into our consciousness and ultimately, our hearts.”
J.S. BREUKELAAR, author of Remedy and Collision

“Reflecting and refracting our current kaleidoscope of cataclysm, Koja summons her strongest work yet to conclude the Dark Factory trilogy. Art about art is the penultimate challenge in literature and Dark Matter is a liberating success in this rarified arena.”
TOM CARDAMONE, author of the short story collection Momentary Aberrations and editor of Crashing Cathedrals: Edmund White by the Book

“Lyrical, frenetic and beautiful, Dark Matter is the ambitious ‘post-doom culture’ third installment of her Dark Factory series, continuing the pursuits and intrigues of a complex network of larger-than-life characters. Lushly written and effortlessly cool, the exclusive tech-addled world of Dark Matter is well worth the hand stamp and price of admission.”
VICTORIA DALPE, author of the Resurrectionist series, Les Femmes Grotesques and Parasite Life

Praise for Dark Factory

“In breathless, careening prose, Koja captures minds that see a thousand worlds at once, lives lived at 150 beats per minute, and the complicated, messy reality that lies beneath the endless search for the perfect night out. This is sure to delight fans of Jeff Noon and mind-bending speculative fiction.” –PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

“Some writers are born to spin tales from the shadows. Kathe Koja is one such author. Dark Factory is a unique and esoteric experience. A journey into the throbbing heart of creativity itself. Where we find kisses and cuts. A fantastic story.” – S.A. Cosby, NYT bestselling author of Razorblade Tears and Blacktop Wasteland

“There isn’t anywhere I wouldn’t go with Kathe Koja, and the seams of reality are no exception.” – Sarah Miller, author of Caroline and The Borden Murders

 “Visionary. Stunning. A near-future vision of clubbing culture that takes us beyond virtual reality but, at the same time, presents an intimate look at the life of artists. Koja proves once again that she is a master of her craft.” – Alma Katsu, author of The Fervor and The Deep

“Koja writes like she’s an entire collective of artists, senses in overdrive, voracious for the next hit of art that will push them–and us–over the edge. This is pure energy, a glow-in-the-dark vision of a new kind of writing.” – Daniel Kraus, NYT bestselling author of Bent Heavens and The Living Dead

“Dark Factory is a wickedly original and wild book—a steadily evolving mystery, an ecstatic search for beauty and reality, a confrontation with our need to tell and be told stories—all borne of Koja’s endless curiosity and dexterity.” – Lindsay Lerman, author of I’m From Nowhere and What Are You

“You don’t read Dark Factory so much as slam dance your way through its glittering labyrinth of art, tech, danger, and lust. Meticulously envisioned and impeccably performed, this book lives and breathes far beyond its pages, providing an experience more akin to experimental theater than traditional literature; once again, Koja drags fiction kicking and screaming into the future, where it belongs.” – Maryse Meijer, author of The Seventh Mansion and Heartbreaker

“Koja has redefined the possibilities and limits of literature with Dark Factory–a thunderous, all-consuming tour de force executed by one of our finest and most skilled creators. This is not a book. This is an unforgettable and transformative experience.” – Eric LaRocca, author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke

 “‘You can dream while you’re awake.’ She’s done it again: with Dark Factory Kathe Koja spins a nighttime world fully realized and revelatory, all while reaching new linguistic highs. And how many books have you read that made you want to dance?” – Tom Cardamone, author of The Lurid Sea, Green Thumb, and Night Sweats: Tales of Homosexual Wonder and Woe

 “Dark Factory reminds us that Kathe Koja is not only a great writer, but an important one. Bolstered by inventive audiovisual supplements, the book is both intimate and epic, an ensemble genre-bender that envisions new possibilities for the novel as narrative form. This is a daring work of multisensory and multimedia immersion, an exemplar of Koja’s career-long commitment to dissolving boundaries—between genres and delivery systems, between body and mind, between story and reader, between virtual and real. This is a propulsive, wickedly funny literary party; enter the Factory, lose yourself, and dance.” – Mike Thorn, author of Shelter for the Damned, Darkest Hours, and Peel Back and See