Jack O’Reilly lives in a world divided up by feudal news media “super powers”. Advertising is dead, instead online newspapers make their money selling personal secrets. As associate director of director of Activist Issues it’s his job to go through the Destructibles—print publications put out by radicals—and identify threats to the system. . . .
Panflick is an online novel in the manner of Tom Jones. It deals with the limits of marriage, limits of family, limits of religion and limits of life. Its hero is Adam Panflick (1936 -). Irony, iconoclasm, a Terry Southern edge and a Kubrick sensibility suggest its general drift. . . .
In 2154, where independent nations have given way to splintered corporate entities responsible for the housing, health, security and education of their employees and shareholders, government everywhere has been scaled down to the point of collapse, leaving those outside of private territories to fend for themselves. Over the shoulder of five inhabitants, carve out slices of a world that . . .
An experimental novel combining crass commercialism, reader response, and time-tested themes like love, fear, and desperation. . . .
44 BC: Julius Caesar survives assassination attempt. 410 AD: Romans repel King Alaric I. 1010 AD: Albinus Gordian is elected Emperor and begins a new age of environmentalism in the Roman Empire. Global Warming is happening, but that doesn’t mean we can’t try to stop it. Spanish anchorman turned international reporter Joe Body is setting out . . .
Magestic is the story of a time traveller, sent back from the future to 1985 to try and fix the world. A calamity awaits in 2025, the world needing to take a different course. Wars need to be avoided, certain politicians disgraced before taking office. But the traveller spends most of his time and energy building up a medical rescue . . .
The Prodigals follows the lives of four troubled young men in Manchester – Brian, Howard, Declan and the novel’s anti-hero, Travis McGuiggan. It’s a book about friendship, religion, drinking, cruelty and love. It’s also a book about leaving home and returning. . . .
Rumil Bonamede considered herself one of the finest hackers in the galaxy, searching for information on a mass genocide of her birthworld more than twenty staryears ago. Left with barely any memories of her childhood before the day that would be known as the Baramak Slaughter, she takes on increasingly risky endeavors into Solarian and Kiros influence and information centers, . . .
Caleb is twenty-two, but he is pretending he is fifteen. He is attending high school, despite having finished college. He is pretending to be a nudist, although he actually likes wearing clothes. He is living with two people who are pretending to be his parents. But don’t worry, it is all for a good cause. At least, Caleb thinks . . .
Steven is a psychiatric nurse close to burnout. He senses that the boundaries between his own mind, the mental health unit where he works, and society itself, are becoming dangerously blurred. Glamorous nursing assistant Kate and mystery man Llewelyn are the only two people who can help him, but . . . . . . .
Currently there are only 10 parts of “Battle of Amsterdam” posted in .pdf’s, but the story looks like it will be interesting. It takes place in a future where humans have colonized other planets and some cities have become autonomous. The narration follows five separate plot lines which will presumably interweave as the story progresses.
"She needed a story that others could slip into, a story that would overflow its sentences, a story like love."
Metafiction is a hard thing to do right. It’s easy to lose your reader in experimental nonsense or lugubrious faux-Borges prose. When the metafictional conceit is a commentary on the financial [more . . .]