"This constitutes a leap forward for the genre we call ’novel.’ Collapsing nonfiction into fiction, women’s reproductive concerns into men’s, history into present, work into play--this novel takes juxtaposition and digression to new heights."

American Book Review

"A tour de force of narrative typography."

Design Observer

"Reading VAS, I felt pushed a bit higher above our own cultural Flatland, an experience both disturbing and enlightening, and one for which I am grateful."

Adam Jones | Review of Contemporary Fiction

"Typographically inventive. . .and visually brilliant—incorporating photos, illustrations, diagrams, charts, and graphic art—VAS: An Opera in Flatland redesigns the novel, taking it to a dimension beyond the one in which it ordinarily lives."

Rain Taxi

"A hybrid of fiction, biotechnology, science studies, the history of biology, aphorisms and even a touch of the comic book. . . . VAS is a welcome and innovative contribution to the ongoing discussion and debate on biotechnology and the posthuman, principally because it invents a unique grammar for engaging with the complex issues presented by biotechnology."

Eugene Thacker | Leonardo

"With striking visual aplomb, VAS casts factoids off the steps of the Temples of the Predetermined into the yet-to-be-written name of errant possibility."

Charles Bernstein

"Tomasula’s imagination, his satiric edge, his wildly comic sense of things, combined with Farrell’s inventive page lay-out make reading this ’Opera in Flatland’ an unforgettable experience."

Marjorie Perloff

"A breathtaking inquiry into the artifacts of the human imagination, VAS . . . is sensuous, ferocious, and original."

Rikki Ducornet