THE ULTRAVIOLET CATASTROPHE by Susan Finlay with Lisa Lagova and Cameron Lynch

readings on the scurvy of worry by Susan Finlay, Lisa Lagova and Cameron Lynch at 6.30pm

A head-trip through capitalism’s final frontier.

Legal-high addict, gaming enthusiast, and principal shareholder of AstroLabsTM, Lex Rameses, has recently discovered—and purchased—Proserpina: a planet with a near-identical ecosystem to Earth’s. Yet, although his humanistic, hipster pretensions mean that many people admire him, there is still one thing standing in the way of his space-colonization program: as of yet, there is no way to travel to Proserpina safely.

Enter a cast of mad scientists, Astro–Marxists, a neurorobotic AI hivemind, an extinction anxiety addict, the victims of an interrelated crypto-currency gaming scam, and a seemingly endless succession of ravers and gamers in search of the ultimate hallucinogenic, carcinogenic, neü-space-age high...