Monday, June 09, 2008

I, Warren Ellis, Pornographer


Warren Ellis has posted some crazy cracked out sc-fi porno-lit--see: "Rupture"--resurrected from when he was on some kind of sperm-on-the-brain, 24-hour, fugue state-fueled tear in 2005.

His honorable goal: "A searing rupture in the sf paradigm: the certain knowledge that in fact what sf needed was both an upgrade and a retrograde. A science fiction dominated by obsession with penis size, an adolescent terror of sex, sickening violence and massive, random, senseless explosions. Written with the sort of ugly, naive bluntness with which a disturbed teenager might craft the self-produced pornographic material that just barely prevents him from going off the rails and fucking all the neighbourhood pets to death."

He calls it "pure." I call it porntastic. My favorite line: "I grabbed a handful of my own semen out of Mother Teresa and flung it at the oncoming cops. They all got instantly pregnant and fell over. Even the men."