Price €4.40 Shipping €1.50 ALBEDO ONE ISSUE 23 48 pages A4 Interview with Michael Moorcock: 'Another Sunny Day in Texas' Fiction: 'That Obscure Object of Desire' by Mike o'Driscoll 'Drowning in the Desert' by David Murphy - IRISH 'On a Planet Similar to Ours, The Virgin Mary Says No' by John W. Sexton 'The Gun' by Nicola Raines 'Hunting Andrew' by Hugh Cook 'Millennium TV Guide' by Jason Gould and Allen Ashley Plus the usual columns: book reviews in 'Famous Monsters', polemic in Severian, and readers' comments in 'Ugly Chickens'. From the review in Tangent On-line: "Mike O’Driscoll’s "The Obscure Object of Desire" is the strongest story in this issue. In the future the production of art has been entirely automated through the use of DADA Machines (Device for the Assimilation of Dead Artists.) Such devices take all of the known biographical, historical, and artistic information about an artist and allow people to produce authentic new works that seem as if the real artist produced them. Haz, a young artist with the rights to the Léger franchise, has his first exhibition ruined by the interference of Eric Klemper, an old and embittered painter who hates what the DADA machines have done. Confused, Haz eventually seeks out Klemper and his artwork again, to try and understand the nature of Klemper’s anger. In doing so, Haz ends up pushing the DADA technology to its logically solipsistic conclusion. Haz, the short-sighted, shallow, career-driven "artist," is realistically annoying, and O’Driscoll does an excellent job at showing us all the terrifying implications of the DADA Machine."

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