The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman
A South American capital has been under attack for a year by images — mirages, dead relatives walking, buildings that will not stay put — all of it broadcast from the desire machines of a physicist who has abolished the difference between what is and what is wanted. The Minister of Determination sends a bored civil servant to find and kill him, and the errand runs through a river people who mean to eat him, a travelling fair, a coast of centaurs and a count out of Sade, with the doctor's daughter turning up at every stage in a different body. Angela Carter named her physicist for the German fantasist whose automata Freud used to define the uncanny, and wrote most of the book in Japan.
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- alludes to ↑ The Sandman
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