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The Arab Bank by Jim Hanas

“The Arab Bank” is a 12-part short fiction serial set in Cannes, which is running during the Cannes Film Festival [May 13-24].  It utilizes Google Maps, Street View, and delivery via web, Facebook, email, RSS, and Twitter. . . .

A serialized novel, updating daily.
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Chuck by J. A. Jeanty

.... a famous man with a broken soul....

“Chuck” is a serial novel—a psych-thriller—about a famous artist—a troubled man—who manages to get by . . . until his mother passes.  Interestingly enough, his reaction is not what he would have expected.  He’s actually not dealing with it so well . . . and neither are the people around him.  Sanity versus truth—which is which? . . .

A serialized novel, updating twice weekly.
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The Khann of Mann by Andrew Compton

Wall Street, Corruption, Dubai, Market Manipulation

Khann of Mann is a fictional account of an uncompromising Wall Street investment banker and the human interest storyline as he wrestles with life, laws and love on a global scale.  The novel is less about Wall Street, rather man’s pursuit of his desires and the consequences those pursuits create.  Christopher Khann is a self-taught genius who can resist everything . . .

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Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

Marcus, a.k.a “w1n5t0n,” is only seventeen years old, but he figures he already knows how the system works–and how to work the system.  Smart, fast, and wise to the ways of the networked world, he has no trouble outwitting his high school’s intrusive but clumsy surveillance systems. But his whole world changes when he and his friends find themselves . . .

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LITTLE BROTHER

Homeland Security and Terrorism

Editor: Linda Schoales
April 24, 2009

“Little Brother” is the story of Marcus Yallow, a high school geek who gets caught in the wrong place, at the wrong time.  He and his friends skip school to play an Alternate Reality Game but are picked up by Homeland Security in the aftermath of a terrorist attack on San Francisco.  When they are finally released, they find their [more . . .]

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LITTLE BROTHER

This one speaks to me.

Member: BFuniv
January 16, 2010

This book is about young hackers fighting when tyranny passes the tipping point in their neighborhood.

What is striking is what Stephen King in his book On Writing refers to as the most important part of fiction – the truth. These characters are real, their situations ring with historicity and valid [more . . .]

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