Gangs roam the nighttime streets, their members hidden within holographic projections of gigantic insects or mythological creatures. Buildings burn for days, but are never consumed, while others burn and later show no signs of damage.
Street signs and landmarks shift constantly, while time appears to contract and dilate.
One day a red sun swollen to hundreds of times its normal size rises to terrify the populace, then retreats across the sky to set on the same horizon. Inexplicable events punctuate the novel: One night the perpetual cloud cover parts to reveal two moons in the sky. People enter and leave by crossing a bridge on foot. The city of Bellona is severely damaged radio, television, and telephone signals do not reach it. It features an extended trip to and through Bellona, a fictional city in the American Midwest cut off from the rest of the world by an unknown catastrophe. Dhalgren is a 1975 science fiction novel by American writer Samuel R.
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