Brexit
has produced its first work of literature, in the form of an erotic novel
depicting a relationship between a man and a “massive, sentient” pound coin.
In the
book a giant floating pound coin, with an “incredible set of chiseled metallic
abs” and a “thick golden rod”, takes 25-year-old Alex Liver bot one month into
the future, offering a haunting vision of the UK a few weeks after the Brexit
vote.
In
London the Houses of Parliament are ablaze, the River Thames is “bubbling like
the lava of a molten volcano”, and strange creatures “dressed [as] the Queen’s
guard but with leathery reptilian wings and extended knife like teeth” patrol
the sky. Quadruple-Decker passenger buses, introduced in a cost-saving measure
by a desperate post-referendum government, have proven impractical and lie on
their sides in the streets.
Against
this dystopian backdrop Liver bot and the giant pound coin, which is called
Perber and appears to have hands, a penis and some method of speaking aloud,
strike up an unlikely relationship. Their coupling culminates with a
breathlessly depicted sexual encounter in a London pub.
Tingle –
the name is believed to be a pseudonym – has been honing his distinct take on
erotica since January 2015, when his debut novel, Chuck’s Dinosaur Tinglers
Volume 1, was released.
A
prolific writer, Tingle averages almost three books a month. He rose to fame
over the last year after his work was nominated for a Hugo prize – a
prestigious science fiction award – following an online campaign by the Rabid Puppies
movement. The group campaigns against a perceived left wing bias by Hugo award judges
by voting en masse for male authors and criticizing female writers. Tingle disowned the
Rabid Puppies earlier this year, and invited Zoë Quinn, a video game developer
who has been the target of online harassment by Gamer gate and the Rabid Puppies, to
attend the Hugo awards ceremony in his stead.
Tingle’s
work has been described as a parody of dinosaur erotica, a real sub-genre of
literature which explores hypothetical sexual encounters between animals from
the Triassic,
Jurassic and Cretaceous periods and human beings.
In
recent months Tingle has expanded his oeuvre, however, and exploring themes
such as unicorns – in Hunter Dentist: Pounded in the Butt by Cecil the Handsome
Unicorn – and inanimate objects, in Pounded in the Butt by my Handsome Ghost Boats.
In an
email interview, Tingle said Pounded by the Pound took “seven or eight” hours
to write, but conceded that many more hours had been spent on research.
The
author, who in his correspondence displayed an eccentric interpretation of
grammar and punctuation, warned that his stark vision for Britain’s future,
including the distortion of the Queen’s guard and the ill-conceived adaptations
to London’s public transport, could yet come to pass.
“Well
the events of Pounded by Pound are only a month later so id say [it is] pretty
realistic,” Tingle said.
“It
makes sense that they would have to call in the reptile guards and also that
all double Decker bus[es] would need four stories to cut costs.”
He
advised: “DON’T DO THIS THEY WILL TIP OVER.”
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