Austin Fanzine Project

with the system of the apts., and one guy in particular goes AWOL checking out the communes on the outside who have gone back to a ritualistic primitive harvest society. There's a rock star guy who plays 3D planet vibrations for the grubbo blue collars, a horny 14 year old who is trying to impress everyone, sleeping with anything he can, helping to advance his ladder climbing in the bureaucracy of the apts. I can't say enough stuff about this book, it's a real treat to discover something like this, I could see why Silverberg gave up SF in the 70's when stuff like this gets pushed under the rug, never heard of this gold spire before. -- Bonnie Banks

Cabeza De Vaca's Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America

Having seen the movie a few times I found out this amazing book and slammed my head between the pages like a maniac. I, expecting a pagan psychitoc ranting El Topo type, saw the Spaniard Cabeza exploring the North American continent addled and spun with thoughts stuck in the Catholic religion. In the movie he's made into a witch doctor. In the book he's made into a witch doctor. However, he does everything in God's name with the sign of the cross over the sick and heals them in the book.