Product DescriptionTess welds metal. Bibi molds flesh. Together, they make art that moves,dances, burns, and bleeds, and the Surgeons of the Demolition become thehottest ticket in town. But Bibi wants more, always more, no matter who getshurt. And Tess needs to burn, no matter what. Thirty years ago, SKIN changed the landscape of dark fiction forever. And now the girls are back in town. "A dark and frightening work by a major talent whose prose reads like acollaboration between Clive Barker and William S. Burroughs. Highlyrecommended." - Library Journal "[H]umorless novel about art punks in an unnamed present-day city...thenovel, like the art of the characters it portrays, is a sustained exercisein style over substance." - Publishers Weekly "The language Koja employs is fresh and astonishing, harsh yet beautiful." -Washington Post Book World "The biggest flaw in this novel is the writing. Koja often abandons grammar,sentence structure, and, as a result, clarity. Many of her incompletesentences are simply unintelligible." - The Tech "Unexpectedly poignant ... Sentences as sharp and to the point as a scrotalstud." - SPIN "[W]ill leave many fighting off its overload." - Kirkus Reviews "Not an easy read, but perversely beautiful." - Vector

From the award-winning author of The Cipher and Buddha Boy, comes Velocities, Kathe Koja's second electrifying collection of short fiction. Thirteen stories, two never before published, all flying at the speed of strange.