Technicolor Ultra Mall

In the commodified future the consequences of a failing society are brought to bear upon one man’s ambition and his attempt to escape his own socio-economic hell.



The world’s ecosystems have been destroyed by genetic pollution and cities have evolved into mega malls.



Budgie is a knife wielding, brass knuckled young man from the impoverished and brutal red section of Toronto’s T-Dot Center. When his best friend is urdered and Budgie falls in love with the woman responsible, he learns that there’s more to life than drugs, blood or money. To escape his past he must give up everything and everyone he knows and sell his perceptions to an enigmatic and dangerous gang leader.



Fighting for survival and unwittingly involved in a scheme that only he can stop, Budgie must ask himself: Does he want to?



Technicolor Ultra Mall is an ultra-violent science fiction dystopic novel about the value of being human in a completely commodified world.



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Technicolor Ultra Mall was shortlisted for both the Aurora and Sunburst awards. It weaves satire, ultra-violence and science fiction into a fast-paced, disjointed sprawl of a book that has been called "hellish, brilliant, stellar and profane" and a "dystopian tour de force" by reviewers.