By turns gothic and erotic, punk and precious, violent and virulent, sexy and sarcastic, irreverent and obscene, unsentimentally noir and brutally, shamelessly romantic these twenty stories by one of the contemporary masters of the form are like no others you will ever read. Dark Matter is the clearest snapshot of Roche's bold early vision during a time when sex and genre fiction were being reinvented for the next millennium. After more than a decade out of print, this influential collection is available again