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Fantasy stories. From the author of 19 Knives and My White Planet comes a wonderful collection of short stories about music and travel. Whether it's a band breaking up at the ruins of Pompeii, or touring Naples amidst its "volcanic dust, drugs, jackal-headed chaos and mountains of stinking rubbish"; Or a nostalgic stroll among the homeless in Victoria's Inner Harbor while soft Tunisian techno plays on the breeze, as addicts fill the park benches, burdened like Shakespeare's characters... "A burning rock and a little cup hidden under his shirt, he gets it all, drawing every strand of the wreath, and heavy is the head that wears the crown, that lights the lighter." Or the music of Steppenwolf or the Youngbloods floats from a car radio as “sirens and ambulance lights soar down our street...a dazzling silent display of a missile of grief.” Or maybe they are in Iceland, or Denmark, “a very charming and attractive place” spending a lot of money that the record producers did not give them. Or maybe they're in the Viper Room, or Sunset Boulevard, or a bar in Butte, Montana, or Johnny Cash in Tijuana. The five stories that make up Chick Techno are full of the verve and excitement we've become accustomed to in Mark Jarman's stories - "those timeless paeans to lost icy street corners and fleeting republics" exquisitely rendered, and his distinctive, staccato style at its peak. The search for love and affairs of the heart are always present, permeating these stories like the blade of a knife cutting through sand.