Nightlife was an early enough novel that it was the last thing I did on an electric typewriter before migrating to my first Mac. Why use not a Word doc as the source for all this? There wasn’t one.

Until a reader complains and calls it to your attention, you may not realize something’s gone out with glitches.

Unless you hire one like Crossroad did at the time, who was fired when it became apparent they were taking the paychecks but not bothering with the part about finding the mistakes. Sometimes OCR gets it wrong, but that’s what proofreaders are for. The e-book’s text came from an Optical Character Recognition scan of the original 1991 paperback. Part of this reaction was because the text had been ported over from the e-book edition, and until now I’d been blissfully ignorant of the typos that had infiltrated it. Jesus Christ, what did I ever see in you obnoxious twats back then? Every day.Īnd then, after all these years, we finally got together again and I couldn’t stand them. Several enjoyable hours spent in the company of people I used to know characters who, at one phase in my life, I was spending a lot of time with. I was expecting something like a class reunion. It was my first time looking over the novel since … well, decades ago, it would have been. It will be coming from Crossroad Press, who have issued the e-book edition for the past several years.Ī few days ago I finished proofing a PDF galley of the print workup. 'About this title' may belong to another edition of this title.Always lead with the good news: Nightlife, my third novel, is headed for a new print edition. Kerebawa's arrival is the only redeeming and imaginative feature of Hodge's ( Dark Advent ) occasionally ghastly and overly long novel.Ĭopyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. Mendoza himself is sought by the Yanomamo warrior Kerebawa, who travels to America to retrieve skullflush and avenge its theft before it is sniffed by too many of the wrong noses. Tampa drug dealer Tony Mendoza, who turns into a human version of his pet piranha when he samples the drug, begins a search for Justin, the only witness who knows what really happened in the disco that fateful night. Another of Erik's friends, Trent, takes rather a larger dose and is tranformed into a ravenous beast who practically devours four people and then commits suicide. But on his first night in town his buddy Erik takes him to a disco, where he tries a mild dose of skullflush.

Louis, has arrived in Tampa, Fla., to start a new life. Justin Gray, a former small-time drug dealer in St. 35 from a fierce Venezuelan mountain people wreaks havoc on its abusers. The theft by a drug lord of a mysterious green powder called skullflushp.

Nightlife by Brian Hodge