Hello all,
I'm a new science-fiction novelist trying to get the word out about my
new novel. If you might be interested, please read on.
^ ^ ^ The Big God Network: New Science Fiction ^ ^ ^
"Huffington Post blogger J.C. McGowan has just published a science
fiction novel, The Big God Network, that takes America's culture wars
into cyberspace and embeds multiculture in the multiverse. The book
adds politics, spirituality and the search for extraterrestrial life
to immersion and virtual reality, themes the author examined in his
non-fiction work Entertainment in the Cyber Zone: Exploring the
Interactive Universe of Multimedia (Random House).
The Big God Network takes place in near-future Bali, Tokyo, and
California, and virtual worlds that range from the "Yabyum Palace" (a
cyber Tantric *** parlor) to "the Church of the Good Citizen" (an
evangelical virtual church) to "Nigh Errant" (a fantasy realm) to
various phantasmagoric settings. This work of satirical speculative
fiction blends the wry humor of Kurt Vonnegut with the cosmic scope of
Carl Sagan and the edgy near-future scenarios of William Gibson.
In McGowan's vision, set in the 2020s, the current growth in the power
of the Christian Right has continued unabated, resulting in some less-
than-desirable changes in the American political landscape. The United
States has been carved up into a handful of politically themed new
countries, including liberal Pacifica (the West Coast) and the
country's theocratic heartland, known as New America (run by a
president obsessed with the Christian rapture).
Against this contentious political backdrop, Baba Ed, the leader of a
wealthy UFO cult, seeks contact with extraterrestrial civilizations
via the Channel, a breakthrough communications interface with a high
"AIQ" that renders the most secure system vulnerable, and threatens
the new balance of power. McGowan envisions a dystopic New America
ruled by evangelicals who hope to bring Pacifica back into the fold,
and the Channel may offer the means to subdue the "secular" region. Or
to protect it, if the book's Pacifican-Brazilian hero Franz Sampaio is
successful in his quest."
The book is available from Amazon.com here:
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1425769373/ref=nosim/
galactus-20">The Big God Network (at Amazon.com)</a><br>
<a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1425769373/ref=nosim/
cultureplanet-21">The Big God Network (at Amazon U.K.)</a><br>
<a href="http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/1425769373/ref=nosim/
cultureplanet-20">The Big God Network (at Amazon Canada)</a>
The novel's myspace page can be found here:
<a href="http://myspace.com/biggodnetwork">The
Big God Network (at
MySpace)</a>
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