{"title":"The Cryptic Reflex","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif;\"\u003e“In \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eThe Cryptic Reflex\u003c\/i\u003e, P. K. Garrison creates a John Huston noir, in which Indiana Jones finds himself in Jurassic Park and cyborg fauns chase maidens with prosthetic rumps. While engaging in these familiar literary genres, he invents a new one: the novel as culture romp. Garrison writes, ‘if I were somehow able to suck all the air out of this world, then my dreams would fall at exactly the same speed as the densest, most destructive force in the universe.’ Irresistible.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: #1d161f; mso-font-width: 105%;\"\u003e--Curtis Wh\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: #312f31; mso-font-width: 105%;\"\u003ei\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: #1d161f; mso-font-width: 105%;\"\u003ete,\u003cspan style=\"letter-spacing: -.6pt;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eauthor of The \u003c\/i\u003eScience \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eDelusion, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cem\u003eWe\u003c\/em\u003e \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eRobots, Memories\u003cspan style=\"letter-spacing: 1.65pt;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eof\u003cspan style=\"letter-spacing: 2.0pt;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eMy\u003cspan style=\"letter-spacing: 1.65pt;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eFather\u003cspan style=\"letter-spacing: 2.0pt;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eWatching\u003cspan style=\"letter-spacing: 2.0pt;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eTV\u003cspan style=\"letter-spacing: 2.0pt;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eand\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: #1d161f; letter-spacing: 4.0pt; mso-font-width: 150%;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: #1d161f; mso-font-width: 105%;\"\u003emany other \u003cspan style=\"letter-spacing: -.1pt;\"\u003ebooks.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif;\"\u003e“P. K. Garrison’s protagonist, Kendall Freegard, steps out of the modern world of Djuna Barnes and Henry Miller and into an older world akin to the worlds of Treasure Island, The Island of Dr. Moreau, and Tom’s Sawyer’s Jackson Island. Kendall is a modern woman, but when she travels to the Yemeni island of Socotra with a group of cryptozoologists in order to capture a legendary giant cobra known as the Savage of Socotra, she finds herself confronted by humanity’s misunderstood hominid past. Juxtapositions of the ancient and modern in Garrison’s tale move the reader through time and space in the manner of a ripping good yarn!”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif;\"\u003e--Eckhard Gerdes, author of the novels \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eThe Pissers’  Theatre\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eMarco \u0026amp; Iarlaith\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eThe Isolate\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eThe Land of Lost Simulacra\u003c\/i\u003e, and dozens more.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-cryptic-reflex","title":"The Cryptic Reflex","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif;\"\u003e“In \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eThe Cryptic Reflex\u003c\/i\u003e, P. K. Garrison creates a John Huston noir, in which Indiana Jones finds himself in Jurassic Park and cyborg fauns chase maidens with prosthetic rumps. While engaging in these familiar literary genres, he invents a new one: the novel as culture romp. Garrison writes, ‘if I were somehow able to suck all the air out of this world, then my dreams would fall at exactly the same speed as the densest, most destructive force in the universe.’ Irresistible.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: #1d161f; mso-font-width: 105%;\"\u003e--Curtis Wh\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: #312f31; mso-font-width: 105%;\"\u003ei\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: #1d161f; mso-font-width: 105%;\"\u003ete,\u003cspan style=\"letter-spacing: -.6pt;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eauthor of The \u003c\/i\u003eScience \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eDelusion, \u003c\/i\u003eWe \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eRobots, Memories\u003cspan style=\"letter-spacing: 1.65pt;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eof\u003cspan style=\"letter-spacing: 2.0pt;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eMy\u003cspan style=\"letter-spacing: 1.65pt;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eFather\u003cspan style=\"letter-spacing: 2.0pt;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eWatching\u003cspan style=\"letter-spacing: 2.0pt;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eTV\u003cspan style=\"letter-spacing: 2.0pt;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eand\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: #1d161f; letter-spacing: 4.0pt; mso-font-width: 150%;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: #1d161f; mso-font-width: 105%;\"\u003emany other \u003cspan style=\"letter-spacing: -.1pt;\"\u003ebooks.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif;\"\u003e“P. K. Garrison’s protagonist, Kendall Freegard, steps out of the modern world of Djuna Barnes and Henry Miller and into an older world akin to the worlds of Treasure Island, The Island of Dr. Moreau, and Tom’s Sawyer’s Jackson Island. Kendall is a modern woman, but when she travels to the Yemeni island of Socotra with a group of cryptozoologists in order to capture a legendary giant cobra known as the Savage of Socotra, she finds herself confronted by humanity’s misunderstood hominid past. Juxtapositions of the ancient and modern in Garrison’s tale move the reader through time and space in the manner of a ripping good yarn!”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif;\"\u003e--Eckhard Gerdes, author of the novels \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eThe Pissers’ Theatre\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eMarco \u0026amp; Iarlaith\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eThe Isolate\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eThe Land of Lost Simulacra\u003c\/i\u003e, and dozens more.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif;\"\u003ePublished by Broken Spine Books, distributed by JEF Books\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Paul Garrison","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48324789403805,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0537\/8480\/5533\/files\/CrypticReflexfrontcover300dpi.png?v=1779661406"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0537\/8480\/5533\/collections\/Cryptic_Reflex_front_cover_300dpi.jpg?v=1779661205","url":"https:\/\/www.experimentalfiction.com\/collections\/the-cryptic-reflex.oembed","provider":"The Journal of Experimental Fiction","version":"1.0","type":"link"}