But n Ben A-Go-Go

The year is AD 2090. Global Flooding has left most of the Scotland under water. The descendants of those who survived God's Flood live in a community of floating island parishes, known collectively as Port.

Port's citizens live in mortal fear of Senga, a supervirus whose victims are kept in a giant warehouse in sealed capsules called Kists.
Paolo Broon is a low-ranking cyberjanny. His life-partner, Nadia, lies forgotten and alone in Omega Kist 624 in the Rigo Imbeki Medical Center. When he recieves an unexpected message from his radge criminal father to meet him at But n Ben A-Go-Go, Paolo's life is changed forever.
He must traverse VINE, Port and the Drylands and deal with rebel American tourists and crabbit Dundonian microchips to discover the truth about his family's past in order to free Nadia from the sair grip of the merciless Senga.

Set in a distinctly unbonnie future-Scotland, the novel's dangerous atmosphere and psychologically-malkied characters weave a tale that both chills and intrigues. In But n Ben A-Go-Go, Matthew Fitt takes the allegedly dead language of Scots and energises it with a narrative that cracks and fizzles with life.

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The Association for Scottish Literary Studies are publishing a 'Scotnotes' study guide to Matthew Fitt's But n Ben A-Go-Go. The notes cover the use of genre, the variety of scots accents used in the novel, imagery, metaphor and similie, and the style of the book.
The notes (ISBN 0948877677) will be published in October 2005, but extracts are available now from the Luath Press website! Just click on the 'Read Inside' link below the But n Ben A-Go-Go cover image.