Digital Leatherette
by Steve Beard
Category: Fiction

Digital Leatherette is an ethno-techno cyberpunk novel about sex, drugs and drum'n'bass. Digital Leatherette is a London science fiction novel featuring the Rave at the End of the World in Battersea Power Station, UFOs over Heathrow Airport, street riots sponsored by fashion designers, MI6 agents running their own reality cop shows, a stock market crash triggered by a star in the sky, a dangerous new drug called Starflower and barcode tattoos. A surrealist narrative consisting of text fragments pulled down from invented internet web-sites by an imaginary intelligent agent, Digital Leatherette is a Clockwork Orange for the chemical generation.