by Steven-Elliot Altman (SG Member: Steven_Altman)
Our Fiction Friday serialized novel, The Killswitch Review, is a futuristic murder mystery with killer sociopolitical commentary (and some of the best sex scenes we’ve ever read!). Written by bestselling sci-fi author Steven-Elliot Altman (with Diane DeKelb-Rittenhouse), it offers a terrifying postmodern vision in the tradition of Blade Runner and Brave New World…
By the year 2156, stem cell therapy has triumphed over aging and disease, extending the human lifespan indefinitely. But only for those who have achieved Conscientious Citizen Status. To combat overpopulation, the U.S. has sealed its borders, instituted compulsory contraception and a strict one child per couple policy for those who are permitted to breed, and made technology-assisted suicide readily available. But in a world where the old can remain vital forever, America’s youth have little hope of prosperity.
Jason Haggerty is an investigator for Black Buttons Inc, the government agency responsible for dispensing personal handheld Kevorkian devices, which afford the only legal form of suicide. An armed “Killswitch” monitors and records a citizen’s final moments — up to the point where they press a button and peacefully die. Post-press review agents — “button collectors” — are dispatched to review and judge these final recordings to rule out foul play.
When three teens stage an illegal public suicide, Haggerty suspects their deaths may have been murders. Now his race is on to uncover proof and prevent a nationwide epidemic of copycat suicides. Trouble is, for the first time in history, an entire generation might just decide they’re better off dead.
(Catch up with the previous installments of Killswitch – see links below – then continue reading after the jump…)
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by Daniel Robert Epstein
I think thats the job of a director, to funnel all the creativity into one centralized point of being.”
– Peter Jackson
As a horror nut I first discovered Peter Jackson when Dead Alive was released on VHS tape back in the early 90s. After viewing that first film I knew Jackson was destined to become one of the great filmmakers. I immediately saw his other works such as the Oscar nominated Heavenly Creatures and Meet the Feebles. When his first Hollywood film, The Frighteners, was going to be released I thought that the entire world was going to discover him then. But I was dead wrong because that film tanked. But as everyone knows, Jackson beat the odds and created a near perfect movie trilogy with the Lord of The Rings films.
Now Jackson is releasing his interpretation of the movie King Kong. He has kept the film set in the 1930s and cast Naomi Watts as Ann Darrow, Jack Black as a crazed filmmaker and Adrien Brody as the screenwriter whose jungle script takes them to deadly Skull Island. With King Kong, Jackson has created a spectacle that may change the world almost as much as the original Kong did back in 1933.
Read our exclusive interview with Peter Jackson on SuicideGirls.com.
Flux Suicide in Illusive
- INTO: Freedom, optimism, the study of the classics, the paleo diet and ancestral health, sex and thunder, CrossFit, the Blonde Myth, indigenous Mesoamerican literature, horror flicks, sunshine, pirate history, artichokes, ontological anarchy, goofy shamanism and irregular occultistics, eating locally from farmers I know, offal, pedantry, the good parts of the American South, hanging out with my mom, lacto-fermentation, coconut oil, raw oysters, the Eight-Circuit Model of Consciousness, the dance party as temporary autonomous zone, seeing the fnords.
- NOT INTO: Grains, legumes, processed foods, the left-right political spectrum, taking myself seriously, monolingualism, Ayn Rand, obsessive hair removal, the pervasive misogyny of our culture.
- MAKES ME HAPPY: Food, sex, deadlifts, books.
- MAKES ME SAD: Pop nihilism, pessimism as posture, people feigning a lack of passion because it’s supposed to be cool.
- HOBBIES: Reading, cooking, working out.
- 5 THINGS I CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT: Food, sunshine, books, makeouts, my health.
- VICES: Un Fernet.
- I SPEND MOST OF MY FREE TIME: Every day I’m hustlin’.
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