THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT HAVE BEEN DOWNLOADED by Francis Whorrall-Campbell
A5, 28 pages, Black & white printing, Perfect bound, Softcover, 2024
Francis Whorrall-Campbell’s THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT HAVE BEEN DOWNLOADED is a zine consisting of the first three instalments of a serialised novella-in-progress. Reprinted with a new addition, the zine presents the story so far, introducing us to the two protagonists – a trans influencer living in the year 2034, and a fictionalised version of Kurt Cobain in 1994 – as the pair travel in opposite directions across the USA, looking for the source the paranormal phenomena disrupting their lives. While Kurt searches for the origin of his ‘dysphoria’ in a sinkhole in Barbados (codenamed the ‘metabolic rift’), Edie is trying to find a cure for ‘twink death’: a real and fatal disease afflicting the cis gays and transmasculine population. These parallel narratives are interwoven with short non-fiction essays which provide context and further explanation for the book’s themes.
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