Scream Angel - Smith Douglas
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Think of human emotion as a geography, with peaks of pleasure and
valleys of pain. Imagine a drug that flips the valleys and makes
them peaks, too. You react now to an event based not on the
pleasure or pain that it brings, but solely on the intensity of the
emotion created. Pain brings pleasure, grief gives joy, horror
renders ecstasy. Now give this drug to a soldier. Tell them to
kill. Not in the historically acceptable murder of war, but in a
systematic corporate strategy—of xenocide. They will kill. And they
will revel in it. Welcome to the world of Scream.Jason Trelayne is
a Screamer, a soldier forced to take part in the enslavement or
death of entire races. But Trelayne falls in love with Philomela, a
Scream Angel, an alien who produces the addictive drug. Does he
love her for her beauty, for the drug she gives him, from guilt for
what he has done to her people? And does she love truly him as she
swears? Or is he simply her only hope for freedom, for her and her
entire race? Forced to choose between freedom and love, what will
they do?"…a multi-layered tale about a circus that features a pair
of ‘angels’ who have the ability to produce a drug that produces
pleasure based on intensity of emotion. Factor in that the owner of
the circus is in love with one of the angels as well as addicted to
the drug she produces, and the story quickly becomes one that holds
the reader’s attention until the very end." —SpecFicWorld"Smith
describes a disturbingly plausible military application for the
narcotic … The basic concept behind the drug strikes me as one of
those rare ideas that seems at once so perfect and so natural that
someone must have come up with it before; but if someone has, I
haven't heard about it, and regardless Smith exploits the potential
of the idea extraordinarily well here." —Strange
Horizons"…remind[ed] me of the reasons I love the author’s writing:
his characterisation, attention to detail and recurring themes of
love, faith and redemption." —SF Crowsnest Reviews"A visceral work
[…] a true pearl of the fantastic literature. Breath-taking." —Café
de Ontem"The story has so many layers that I'm still sorting them
out. And like an onion, I'm not sure if I'll ever find the final
layer." —Tangent Online"A dark and powerful story with a first line
that sets the tone for what is to come: 'They stopped beating
Trelayne when they saw that he enjoyed it.' (A++)" —Fantasy Book
Critic"Scream Angel was especially horrifying and compelling, and I
wound up re-reading it again after I had finished the book."
—Fluidity of Time
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