Kill the Robot (McGilligan Books), a first novel by zinester Maggie MacDonald, will make you want to read this challenging book twice as it takes you with a dizzying thud into Moore White’s fragmented memories of an alternative reality of city checkpoints and the aphoria of the all-encompassing E-Soft Corporation. Moore’s memories are related in such an intriguing nonlinear fashion that you will find it hard to resist rereading random sections to more deeply understand her mind-body connection. The hand-drawn illustrations are startling revelations of the ethos of a dystopian era that is dominated by rules, private police and the overwhelming constant buzzzz and hummm of the E-Soft InterTeeVee. MacDonald tells a strange compelling tale that offers unsettling parallels to the undercurrents of modern social change.
**Note: Recently I attended the Geist Magazine workshop “The Art of the Short Review” and this was what I produced during this session. Geist Magazine posted my review on their website April-July, 2006.
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