By KW Jeter
First Published: 1972
Rating: Very Good, Disturbing.
“Just another urban folktale of sordid bloodlust…”

Set in a future where the United States has largely broken down into reluctantly cooperating enclaves run by a wide variety of strongmen and warlords, with a veneer of government control that seems largely interested in controlling technology. Dr. Adder is an artist-surgeon, who modifies sexual organs of his patients to satisfy the weirdest of perversion; he is clearly depicted as a partly criminal, partly countercultural figure in a future Los Angeles.

Overly graphic violence, repulsive sexual practices, scathing social commentary, and a cast of thoroughly unlikable characters — it’s nearly impossible to describe. But a lot of people get killed in it, and a lot of things get blown up, a lot of which you might agree should get blown up. So it might be exactly what you’re looking for, you sick bastards.