100 Years of Vicissitude

by Andrez Bergen

  As a side note, One Hundred Years of Vicissitude relates to my previous book, Tobacco-Stained Mountain Goat, a reading of which might add some clarity to the experience. It was published in 2011, via the cool cats at Another Sky Press (anothersky.org).

  Also figuring in the blend are Greek myths, fairy tales, comics, Star Trek, actor Peter Lorre, Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu, MacArthur’s pipe, Tristan and Iseult, Totoro, floriography, haiku (ta, David G. Lanoue), and—oh, yes—Sir Thomas Malory.

  About the Author

  Born in Melbourne, Andrez Bergen is an expatriate Australian author, journalist, DJ, photographer and musician, who has been based in Tokyo, Japan, over the past eleven years.

  One Hundred Years of Vicissitude is his second novel.

  Aside from specializing in Japanese culture, anime, movies, and electronic music’s various tangents, Bergen has written fiction for Another Sky Press, Snubnose Press and Crime Factory. He did a book of prose in collaboration with Polish photographer Tomek Sikora, and published his debut novel, the noir/sci-fi-inclined Tobacco-Stained Mountain Goat, in 2011. He is currently putting together an anthology of short stories, by other writers and illustrators, that relates to the dystopia of TSMG.

  Bergen makes music and videos under aliases Little Nobody, Slam-Dunk Ninja, and Funk Gadget, he ran indie/experimental record label IF? for fourteen years, he creates the occasional comic, and he’s a self-professed amateur saké connoisseur.

  Bergen is married to Japanese artist Yoko Umehara, and they have a daughter, Cocoa.

  Find out more at www.facebook.com/andrezbergenauthor