"Duchamp does a marvelous job of portraying the intensely claustrophobic Facility A7, a closed universe so much to and of itself that the real world, which the author only occasionally and nightmarishly evokes, fades to insignificance[...]Given the recent revelations of how prisoners of the U.S. government have been treated at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo, and of the free hand that private corporations like Halliburton have been given by the government to act like independent pocket-states, Duchamp's novel seems as relevant today as any uncensored blog reporting form the Middle East."

"[An] effectively ironic short novel of near-future dystopia and professional disillusionment." -- A New & Notable Book

"The Red Rose Rages (Bleeding) is an intense and gripping read. It is dense with ideas without ever becoming bogged down, as the narrative momentum keeps everything moving. It repays rereading to pick up the hints and clues and recurrent themes and images that the pace of the writing may sweep one past during the first read: for example, "the rose-like designs" of the heat-trace readings on Minnivitch when she is in black isolation, Eve's nightmare of a blood-red flower/wound splitting her foot, the rose preserved in glass on Dorner's austere desk, the "flower of fire blazing within" Venedra Poole. Not a comfortable book, but a compelling and thought-provoking one."