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  If you reread this book—and I hope that you do—you don’t have to make a meal of it unless you wish to fully experience the Futurist ethos. (Adventurous carnivores might try Marinetti’s “Excited Pig”: skin a whole salami, cook it in strong espresso coffee, then flavour with eau de cologne.) But you could always make yourself a Campari cocktail—there’s a choice of Negroni, Garibaldi or Americano—or, if you can find one, pour yourself a Campari Soda. Fortunato Depero would approve, I’m sure.

  Warren Ellis is the internationally bestselling author of the graphic novels Transmetropolitan, Fell, Red, and Planetary, and the novels Gun Machine and Crooked Little Vein. His graphic novel Iron Man: Extremis was the basis for the blockbuster Iron Man 3 movie. He has written for Vice and Wired UK and is currently at work on various projects. Ellis lives near London in Southend-On-Sea.

  John Coulthart is the World Fantasy Award-winning illustrator and designer of the iconic Steampunk anthology series, the Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases, Lovecraft’s Monsters, Lord Horror: Reverbstorm, and The Haunter of the Dark and Other Grotesque Visions. He was the Artist Guest of Honor at Ars Necronomica in 2015. Coulthart lives in Manchester, England.

  World Fantasy Award nominee Christopher Brown’s debut novel Tropic of Kansas, about Americans trying to create their own liberated city-states, is forthcoming from HarperVoyager in 2017. His other fiction and criticism can be found at christopherbrown.com.

  Mojo Press co-founder Rick Klaw is an editor, pop culture historian, reviewer, social media maven, and optimistic curmudgeon. His most recent editorial projects include The Apes of Wrath, Rayguns Over Texas, Hap and Leonard, and Hap and Leonard Ride Again. Klaw lives in Austin, Texas.