Praise for ZONE 23 "A big, bold novel that's funny and harrowing and funny again . an unflinching portrait of a genetically-modified, fact-checked, sensitivity-edited, corporate-controlled future that feels all too familiar--because we're living in it." --GAVIN DE BECKER, bestselling author of The Gift of Fear " Zone 23 is a razor-sharp, painfully hilarious satire on a future society in which authoritarianism rules beneath the mask of peace. It's full of heart, humanity, humour and riotous defiance. As a warning and provocation it sits alongside the literary sci-fi classics by Vonnegut, Bradbury and Pynchon." --EWAN MORRISON, author of For Emma "[A] witty, nasty, erudite, Pynchonesque narrative, full of fleshed-out sleazy characters and a hyper-detailed alternative world . ZONE 23 has a place on a list of several classic dystopian novels that have taken on similar themes." --V.
N. Alexander, Dactyl Review " Zone 23 reads like one of the mind-bending compounds discovered by the infamous, legendary psychopharmacologist Alexander Shulgin -strangely, the book itself is the antidote for the very depression it induces. It's also wildly prophetic, scary, and scabrously funny." --BRUCE WAGNER Critical Acclaim for the Award-winning Work of C. J. Hopkins "A brilliant (and hilarious) critique of the emptiness of American life and the meaninglessness of the popular culture that attempts to fill the void." --Toronto Globe & Mail "A blistering revelation . Hopkins' body of work owes a huge debt to the absurdists and so manages to blast beyond the merely political or allegorical to the existential.
" --Time Out New York "Sharp, brilliant, intense, fast-moving, made for the moment we live in .a portrait of a culture caught in a strange and painful paradox between progressive and reactionary attitudes." -- The Scotsman , Edinburgh "A feral Ferris wheel of comedy, confusion, contradiction, obfuscation and bent-out-of-shape straight talking that leaps out of the room at you and harnesses you to its mischievous mindset." -- Metro , UK "America's relationship with consumerism and the media is unerringly skewered." -- The Times , London "Hilariously at odds with the mainstream, and much bigger and deeper than the sum of its apparent parts." -- The Herald , Scotland "Stimulating and thought-provoking . a welcome addition to the canon of all things absurd and beautiful." -- The List , Edinburgh "A gripping satire, which spills into sinister weirdness.
" -- Die Tageszeitung , Berlin.