num_pages: 224
description: Set in the blood-drenched chaos of Beerlight, "a blown circuit, where to kill a man was less a murder than a mannerism," Dante Cubit and his pill-popping sidekick, the Entropy Kid, waltz into First National Bank with some serious attitude and a couple of snub guns. Murderous, trigger-happy cops, led by the doughnut-chomping redneck police chief, arrive in force, firing indiscriminately into the crowd gathered outside. Surrender or capture is out of the question. Dante's beloved, the murderous assassin Rosa Control — packing a not-so-small arsenal — prowls the streets, trying to engineer her man's escape. Will Dante slip past the forces of corruption and disorder to join his Rosa? What happens next is a tangled mess of reality and virtual reality.
language: English
title: Slaughtermatic
titlecomplete: Slaughtermatic
genres: Fiction, Bizarro Fiction, Humor, Speculative Fiction, Cyberpunk, Science Fiction, Crime, Noir, Horror, Novels
ratings_count: 410
series: Beerlight
awards: awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Philip K. Dick Award
publisher: Da Capo Press