Nothing and no-one is spared by the acid tongue of this novel – not even the kitchen implements, not even you. A techno-utopia-takedown-turned-techno-curious-trip, The Ultraviolet Catastrophe is a jolt to the brain, a nightmare, a riot and, like everything Finlay does, impossible not to love.

– Amber Husain, author of Tell Me How You Eat

Hallucinatory and haunting, The Ultraviolet Catastrophe is pure stinging pleasure. Its Götterdämmerung rings for them and thee. 

– Jack Skelley, author of The Complete Fear of Kathy Acker

Susan Finlay has her finger on the pulse of Berlin.

– Tom McCarthy, two-time Booker Prize shortlisted author of C and Satin Island

A wild, genre-bending blast with real scale and sweep. The Three Body Problem meets Blue Lard.

– Mariel Franklin author of Bonding

 

The Ultraviolet Catastrophe is raucous, hilarious, irreverent, and wildly smart, taking aim at techno-salvation fantasies, startup culture, and the eternal humiliation of having a body under the ridiculous conditions of late capitalism. Finlay's new novel is as unexpected and unique as all of her work. Read it now.

– Elvia Wilk, author of Oval&n