BLACK BRANE
By Michael Cisco

A widower seeking to forget his painful past, Mr. Gross finds employment at the TISH Institute, established by Dr. Shitansky to study holes. During his tenure, Gross finds himself mired in a quantum entanglement with the black hole NGC 1313 X-2.

He is a prisoner, a ghost, suffering constant pain in the unrelenting void of the black brane.

With elements of occultism, science fiction, horror, and philosophy, this bizarre, stream-of-consciousness manuscript is at best Lynchian and disorienting, and at worst punishingly incoherent. Quite possibly a triumph of “weird lit”, this is definitely for somebody, I’m just not entirely convinced that that somebody is me.

Thank you to CLASH Books for providing this book for review consideration via NetGalley. All opinions are my own.

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