num_pages: 181
description: 'Beerlight was a blown circuit, where to kill a man was less a murder than a mannerism … Crime was the new and only artform.'A book with its own nervous system, Slaughtermatic follows Dante Cubit through the streets of Beerlight as he hunts for a crime mentor, tangling with Chief Henry Blince and the hitman Brute Parker on the way.Real satire amid the bomb zombies, scary clowns and needle bars of the city. Gun karma navigated. Hassle with the locals, breaking our man in half.After robbing a bank with the aid of a painkiller-guzzling, trigger-happy Kid and attempting to escape by killing his own recent-past self, Dante soon realises that there is no escape from a trap that expands with you.
language: English
title: Slaughtermatic
titlecomplete: Slaughtermatic
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Cyberpunk, Speculative Fiction, Noir, Horror, Humor, Novels, Bizarro Fiction, Crime
ratings_count: 410
series: Beerlight
awards: awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Philip K. Dick Award
publisher: Phoenix House