Impotent

Impotent is "about" our increasing dependence on pharmaceutical solutions to our various physical and psychological problems, and to that effect it incorporates the rhetoric to be found in drug labeling, drug advertising, and drug studies as devices in the serial narratives relating its characters 'resort to prescription drugs.

Experimental Fiction 2010

Robotically Assisted Prostate Surgery Leaving Men 'Impotent'

Medindia Health News 2009

Robotically Assisted Prostate Surgery Leaving Men 'Impotent'

Medindia Health News 2009

Robotically Assisted Prostate Surgery Leaving Men 'Impotent'

Medindia Health News 2009

Impotent has no unifying protagonist but instead introduces a succession of characters related by their use of pharmacological helpers.

Experimental Fiction 2010

A work like Impotent does, however, usefully remind us that the novel is an open-ended form limited only by writers 'ability to reach outside established forms and claim modes of discourse seemingly beyond the compass of a "literary" treatment as adaptable to their purposes.

Experimental Fiction 2010

The solution is they have created the Impotent Donkey called Conditional Caution.

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At best such a focus on "saying something" reduces Impotent to a kind of social satire that almost makes the novel's formal experiments seem superfluous.

Experimental Fiction 2010

Impotent rage is only impotent until you can find a cop car to overturn and torch.

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Roberson's novel held my interest readily enough, and if the execution of its formal strategy ultimately seemed to me somewhat contrived, Impotent did expand my sense of what additional strategies writers of fiction might discover.

Experimental Fiction 2010