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Hammers   ( Printable )
  • Author works in a law office specializing in intellectual property law and biogenetics.
  • This edition will be released in conjunction with Mantids (978-0-930773-86-1)
  • Hardback edition got exceptional reviews from Kirkus Reviews and Publishers Weekly--these will be on the paperpack edition's cover.
Title Hammers
Author Ron Dakron of Seattle, WA
Author Bio Ron Dakron is the author of four novels--infra, Newt, Mantids, and Hammers. His work runs the gamut from surrealism to sci-fi pastiche. Point No Point tagged his novels as "a cross between jive bullshit, hip-hop Henny Youngman, and full-tilt Rimbaudian street-smartass sublimity." Raven Chronicles judged him "as sinister as a thirteen-year-old with a lighter and a keg of butane." Publishers Weekly deemed him "a writer with a fine ear and plenty of gusto."
ISBN 978-0-930773-87-8  978-0-930773-87-8
Category FICTION : Science Fiction / General
Publication October 15, 2008
Pages 251
Size 5.50 x 8.50 in.
Price $14.95
Binding Paperback
Publisher Black Heron Press

A young woman geneticist perfects a serum made from both human and shark DNA. In her hurry and ambition, she skips biotech protocol and tries the serum on herself. But she makes a mistake: instead of shooting up a fraction of shark DNA, she pops the entire hammerhead genetic code. Oops! Hammers is a comic science fiction novel about people turning into sharks. Set in a modern biotech city--Seattle--it follows five characters as they mutate and fight for dominance, sex, and a reliable source of fresh squid. Hammers is a classic transformation tale in the genre of Frankenstein.