Frenzetta, Lord Soho, and "Zarzuela" by Richard Calder
reviewed by David Soyka
Whereas Cytheria posits three "realities" that begin to bleed into one another, Frenzetta takes place at a time in which the connections between these realities has been severed. The bizarre results are twofold: much of humanity has mutated into "the perverse" -- beings whose DNA have become entwined with other animal forms -- and much of human technology has been rendered useless and a sort of retro-18th century ethos prevails.

Cythera and Dead Girls, Dead Boys, Dead Things by Richard Calder
reviewed by David Soyka
The story goes that in rejecting J.G. Ballard's automobile-erotic novel, Crash, an editor commented that the author should seek psychiatric help. If that editor ever read Richard Calder, he would undoubtedly recommend immediate institutionalization.