Daryl Gregory

I've done a lot of drugs in my time. Part of the excitement in doing (and reading about) drugs, is that you always end up in endless spirals of funny, terrifying, exiting, wonderful and utterly weird situations. However Afterparty does not want you to partake in any of that. There's nothing funny going on, nothing scary happens, and not one single line would make you raise your eyebrows if the story was told as a late night tale.

In a desperate attempt to spice it all up, the writer half-heartedly tries to blend in a sci-fi aspect, but even that is rather unimaginative and boring. In the end you're left with silly drug fiction, that's about as interesting as a leaflet telling kids "Don't do drugs".

There's mountains of better doped up sci-fi novels out there: From Philip K. Dick, to Jeff Noon, to Michael Marshall Smith and William S. Burroughs. Life is too short to waste on bad books about bad drugs.… (more)