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	The Wild Palms Reader Edited by Roger Trilling and Stuart Swezey   Released as the ambitious companion book to the Oliver Stone-produced ABC mini-series, The Wild Palms Reader has now attained legendary status in its own right as a landmark work of subversive speculative fiction. The Wild Palms Reader unfolds the saga of Tony Kreutzer, the brilliant and twisted guru of Synthiotics, and his sister Josie, grand dame of his mystical-fascist media empire.   Working from the dystopian script of acclaimed novelist Bruce Wagner, The Wild Palms Reader is an extravagantly illustrated dossier of pseudo-documents. Contributors to this powerful collaborative work of fiction include: novelists William Gibson, Thomas Disch, Bruce Sterling, Mary Gaitskill, Hillary Johnson, Bruce Wagner and ex-CIA operative E. Howard Hunt; essayists Ralph Rugoff and Peter Wollen; recording artists Lemmy (Motörhead), Genesis P. Orridge (Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV) and Malcolm McLaren; scientists Hans Moravec (on neural implants) and Gary Henderson (on toxico-pharmacology); and many others. Stunningly designed by Tokyo's Yasushi Fujimoto, The Wild Palms Reader has been recognized as a template for cutting-edge work in graphic, new media and website design.   ISBN 1-878923-11-0 large format trade paper, 128 pp., illustrated full color throughout, $14.95
amokbooks.com 2005
	Reviews:   "This fanatically intricate subtextual pendant to Bruce Wagner's Wild Palms is a thing of beauty and genuine mystery: a vanished television mini-series gracefully everting itself to reveal literary formations of enigmatic depth and complexity. With its stunning production values and wonderfully eclectic posse of writers, The Wild Palms Reader is a secret masterpiece of esoterrorism." – William Gibson   "The excellent Wild Palms Reader is a symptom as much as a story, capturing the giddy sense of slipping into a future where an unholy alliance of technology, media, and pure power are tugging apart the dense social dream of the world–and letting some hungry ghosts loose in the process." – Village Voice   "WARNING: This is not a book about the world of Wild Palms, it is a book from that world. It doesn't know it's fiction, and continued attention is addictive." – Los Angeles Times   top of page