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Glimmering<\/span><\/a> Promo copy:<\/span><\/p>\n It\u2019s 1999 and the world is falling apart at the seams. The sky is afire, the oceans are rising\u2014and mankind is to blame. While the spoils of the 20th Century dwindle, Jack Finnegan lives on the fringes in his decaying mansion, struggling to keep his life afloat and his loved ones safe while battling that most modern of diseases\u2014AIDS.<\/p>\n As the New Millennium approaches, Jack\u2019s former lover, a famous photographer reveling in the world’s decay, gifts him with a mysterious elixir called Fusax, a medicine rumored to cure the incurable AIDS. But soon, the "side effects" of Fusax become more apparent, and Jack gets mixed up with a bizarre entourage of rock stars, Japanese scientists, corporate executives, AIDS victims, and religious terrorists. While these larger players compete to control mankind’s fate in the 21st Century, Jack is forced to choose his own role in the World’s End, and how to live with it.<\/p>\n Originally published in 1997, Glimmering is a visionary mix of fantasy and science fiction about a world in which humanity struggles to cope with the ever-approaching "End of the End."<\/p>\n \n Year Zero<\/span><\/a> Promo copy:<\/span><\/p>\n In the hilarious tradition of The Hitchhiker\u2019s Guide to the Galaxy<\/span>, Rob Reid takes you on a headlong journey through the outer reaches of the universe\u2014and the inner workings of our absurdly dysfunctional music industry.<\/p>\n Low-level entertainment lawyer Nick Carter thinks it\u2019s a prank, not an alien encounter, when a redheaded mullah and a curvaceous nun show up at his office. But Frampton and Carly are highly advanced (if bumbling) extraterrestrials. And boy, do they have news.<\/p>\n The entire cosmos, they tell him, has been hopelessly hooked on humanity\u2019s music ever since \u201cYear Zero\u201d (1977 to us), when American pop songs first reached alien ears. This addiction has driven a vast intergalactic society to commit the biggest copyright violation since the Big Bang. The resulting fines and penalties have bankrupted the whole universe. We humans suddenly own everything\u2014and the aliens are not amused.<\/p>\n Nick Carter has just been tapped to clean up this mess before things get ugly, and he\u2019s an unlikely galaxy-hopping hero: He\u2019s scared of heights. He\u2019s also about to be fired. And he happens to have the same name as a Backstreet Boy. But he does know a thing or two about copyright law. And he\u2019s packing a couple of other pencil-pushing superpowers that could come in handy.<\/p>\n Soon he\u2019s on the run from a sinister parrot and a highly combustible vacuum cleaner. With Carly and Frampton as his guides, Nick now has forty-eight hours to save humanity, while hopefully wowing the hot girl who lives down the hall from him.<\/p>\n \n The McSweeney’s Book of Politics and Musicals<\/span><\/a> Promo copy:<\/span><\/p>\n Ever since John Hancock broke into song after signing the Declaration of Independence, American politics and musicals have been inextricably linked. From Alexander Hamilton’s jazz hands, to Chester A. Arthur’s oboe operas, to Newt Gingrich’s off-Broadway sexscapade, You, Me, and My Moon Colony Mistress Makes Three, government and musical theater have joined forces to document our nation’s long history of freedom, partisanship, and dancers on roller skates pretending to be choo choo trains. <\/p>\n To celebrate this grand union of entrenched bureaucracy and song, the patriots at McSweeney’s Internet Tendency (\u201cThe Iowa Caucus of humor websites\u201d) offer this riotous collection (peacefully assembled!) of monologues, charts, scripts, lists, diatribes, AND musicals written by the noted fake-musical lyricist, Ben Greenman. On the agenda are . . . <\/p>\n Fragments from PALIN! THE MUSICAL<\/span><\/p>\n Barack Obama\u2019s Undersold 2012 Campaign Slogans<\/p>\n Atlas Shrugged<\/span> Updated for the Financial Crisis<\/p>\n Your Attempts to Legislate Hunting Man for Sport Reek of Class Warfare<\/p>\n A 1980s Teen Sex Comedy Becomes Politically Uncomfortable<\/p>\n Donald Rumsfeld Memoir Chapter Title Or German Heavy Metal Song?<\/p>\n Noises Political Pundits Would Make If They Were Wild Animals and Not Political Pundits<\/p>\n Ron Paul Gives a Guided Tour of His Navajo Art Collection<\/p>\n Classic Nursery Rhymes, Updated and Revamped for the Recession, As Told to Me By My Father<\/p>\n And much more!<\/p>\n \n Supergods<\/span><\/a> Promo copy:<\/span><\/p>\n What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human<\/p>\n Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Iron Man, and the X-Men\u2014the list of names as familiar as our own. They are on our movie and television screens, in our videogames and in our dreams. But what are they trying to tell us?<\/span> For Grant Morrison, one of the most acclaimed writers in the world of comics, these heroes are powerful archetypes who reflect and predict the course of human existence: Through them we tell the story of ourselves. In this exhilarating work of a lifetime, Morrison draws on art, archetypes, and his own astonishing journeys through this shadow universe to provide the first true history of our great modern myth: the superhero.<\/p>\n Now with a new Afterword<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Let\u2019s take a quick look to see what\u2019s arrived at the Geek Compound. Glimmering by Elizabeth Hand Introduction by Kim Stanley Robinson Cover by Heidi Whitcomb Promo copy: It\u2019s 1999 and the world is falling apart at the seams. The … Continue reading
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\nIntroduction by Kim Stanley Robinson
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\nEdited by Christopher Monks
\nCover by Brian McMullen and Jason Fulford<\/span><\/p>\n![](\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/41s%2B2hqU8pL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg\"){kind=icon}
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\nby Grant Morrison<\/span><\/p>\n