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Title: Mosca: A Factual Fiction by Richard Miller ISBN: 0-9658423-0-4 Publisher: DFI Books: Dada Foundation Imprints Pub. Date: November, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.00

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Average Customer Rating: 4.8 (5 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Richard Miller Rocks
Comment: I read Mosca in two sittings with Leonard Cohen's The Future playing in the background. Misanthropy magnified.

It's about, like all of Miller's books in one way or another, facing up to the inevitability of our eventual self destruction... maybe I should say apparant inevitability for although there is a fatalistic feeling there is also an undercurrent of potential salvation. Even if it doesn't always go that way there's a feeling that maybe if something was done a little earlier... But anyway fantastically written, It reads to me like human thought on paper... but able to be followed (this is no finnegan's wake) excellent employment of zeugma.

Rating: 5
Summary: Mosca gives new meaning to the term trip.
Comment: William Burroughs said of Miller's "Snail": "Snail is at once delirious & serious... it addresses itself to basic themes of immortality, death, reincarnation & the future of the species." Mosca is no less than a novel addressing itself, often quite humorously, to the end of the human species. Coming to us in New Mexico just in time for the cuartocentenario, a significant part of the novel concerns New Mexico, Onate, the penitentes, moradas and a rakish Santa Sebastiana interacting with Mosca -- a CIA concocted, biogenetically engineered cyber fly. Along with the secret government, Mosca spends time in New Mexico and San Francisco's North Beach preparing to end the human race. As Miller says, the writing is "factual fiction" and is as multi-dimensional as it gets. Mosca gives new meaning to the term "trip" and Miller's intellect and wit are sharper than ever. Carl Hertel for ABQ Arts.

Rating: 5
Summary: Mosca is funny, horrifying, devastating and so alive.
Comment: Let me start by saying I love MOSCA, Richard Miller's latest novel. I've read all his books. When he sent me MOSCA, his tale about a CIA-created, artificial fly who escapes from a creepy lab into the equally corrupt "free world," I read it and entered the Milleresque mindscape. It's remarkable how Miller melds together, collages, footnotes and embroiders the frightening, overwhelming facts most people repress to carry on with "life." MOSCA seems like wild delerium but at its heart it's a witty/serious look at unedited reality. That's why it seems surreal! It's funny, horrifying, devastating and so alive. There's nothing like it anywhere. Get it if you can.