“A crystalline satire of a preening media elite too exhausted with pillaging the minds of consumers to notice the collapsing world around them” (Kirkus).What is the next trend -- the next “killer app”? This question is very much on the mind o...
A City Dangerous, Seductive, and Strange
Set in a fantastical New York City of 1 B.C., these seven stories are a stunning mythic vision. In odysseys that wind through urban streets, Shakar's modern characters pursue their que...
Fred Brounian and his twin brother, George, were once co-CEOs of a burgeoning New York City software company devoted to the creation of utopian virtual worlds. Now, in the summer of 2006, as two wars rage and the fifth anniversary of 9/11 approaches,...