Singh, Nikhil
Entry updated 9 December 2024. Tagged: Author.
(? - ) South African artist, musician and author whose first novel, Taty Went West (2015), follows with considerable verve the adventures of a teenaged runaway into the Outzone of an Equipoisally-complex Near Future world, at some Post-Holocaust point where the leashes of consensual reality have been loosened;a Drug that turns humans into Aliens when they have Sex complicates the cast of characters. The Club Ded sequence beginning with Club Ded (2020) moves from the film set where the eponymous sf film is ostensibly being filmed (see California; Cinema), but in fact is serving as cover for an underwater enclave (see Under the Sea; Zone), where a mysterious Drug is beginning to unravel time on land. The sequel, Dakini Atoll (2024), set some time later, follows two characters who initially seek revenge for psychic atrocities committed upon them as the unmakable film hit the buffers, but who interact with Singh's gonzo logorrheic vision of a surreal Los Angeles to a point where they find themselves becoming Posthuman. Traces of William S Burroughs and J G Ballard, both explicitly acknowledged, surface throughout Singh's work. [JC]
Nikhil Singh
born South Africa
works
series
Club Ded
- Club Ded (Edinburgh, Scotland: Luna Press, 2020) [Club Ded: hb/Ruby Gloom]
- Dakini Atoll (Edinburgh, Scotland: Luna Press, 2024) [Club Ded: hb/Elena Romenkova]
individual titles
- Taty Went West (Nairobi, Kenya: Kwani Trust, 2015) [illus/pb/Nikhil Singh]
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