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Dear Mr. Unabomber

from ENCPress in Books, Fiction

Trying to make sense out of life in the cultural wasteland of ever-ascending technology and materialism, a precocious college student writes letters to the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski, whom he sees as the most compelling counterpoint to the frenzy of online dating, cyber-chats, Internet porn, and fu...

10/12/2009
SarahRae

SarahRae scribbled: "Dear Mr. Unabomber," by Ray Cavanaugh is an exploratory journey of identity in a technologically consumed, and dependent, world. What begins as a series of letters to the infamous “Unabomber,” Te... 10/13/2009

fujiwark

fujiwark scribbled: Ray Cavanaugh's "Dear Mr. Unabomber" contains a series of letters and accompanying drawings addressed to the incarcerated Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski. This epistolary novel is the work of an underachi... 10/29/2009

bibleeohfile

bibleeohfile scribbled: "Dear Mr. Unabomber" by Ray Cavanaugh wasn't quite what I expected it to be, but in some ways I think that made it better. Although each letter starts off by "talking" with Kaczynski about how he c... 11/03/2009

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Diary of a Twentieth-century Elizabethan Poet

from ENCPress in Books, Fiction

A comedy of manners about an oversheltered, pompous young poet who experiences a culture shock upon falling in love with a fair, albeit slightly worn-out, maiden from a South Florida trailer park. Original illustrations by Katrina Hinton-Cooper.

10/12/2009
tisbutehname

tisbutehname scribbled: Continued from earlier: "I died, a long time ago, before this age in which nothing is sacred and everything that came before it is nothing but a source of material to mock. I don’t know how you... 10/23/2009

tisbutehname

tisbutehname scribbled: Mark Mandell's Diary of a Twentieth-Century Elizabethan Poet is a funny, and at times, slightly disturbing account of Percival Hogsbottom, self proclaimed heir to the throne of "Contemporary Spense... 10/23/2009

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ENCPress scribbled: Become our fan on Facebook and automatically enter a raffle to win one of our gift sets every time we add another hundred fans. http://www.facebook.com/pages/ENC-Pre... Who knows, you may be the lucky winner of a trio of books set in New York City. Or books sporting tall, phallic buildings on the cover. Or books featuring animals with sharp, pointy teeth. Or even books of nutritional value (admittedly, dubious nutritional value). The more friends you invite to join, the more frequent these raffles will be.

The Lost World

from ENCPress in Books, Fiction

The Lost World is an adventure/sci-fi novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, first serialized in 1912 by the Strand magazine, with original illustrations. Set in the jungle of South America, in an overlooked place where prehistoric animals and humans survive, it is an early precursor and an inspiration...

06/04/2009
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The Lost World

from ENCPress in Books, Fiction

The Lost World is an adventure/sci-fi novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, first serialized in 1912 by the Strand magazine, with original illustrations. Set in the jungle of South America, in an overlooked place where prehistoric animals and humans survive, it is an early precursor and an inspiration...

06/02/2009
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ENCPress scribbled: Become our fan on Facebook and automatically enter a raffle to win one of our gift sets every time we add another hundred fans. http://www.facebook.com/pages/ENC-Pre... Who knows, you m... 06/04/2009

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Monkey See

from ENCPress in Books, Fiction

When asthma research accidentally leads to creation of talking animals, Man must finally confront the question avoided for centuries: How will this affect dinner parties? Ed the Talking Monkey is stuck between two worlds, with only one good pair of pants, living in a world he never made. Who isn’t?

06/02/2009
bibleeohfile

bibleeohfile scribbled: I know it's early, but I think that "Monkey See" by Walt Maguire is going to be the book of the summer for me. It's got everything I, or any other reader, could want. Genetic experiments on primat... 06/22/2009

tisbutehname

tisbutehname scribbled: If the movies “King Kong” and “Young Frankenstein” had a book for a child, Monkey See would be that book. It is a wildly schemed, crazy literary experiment involving monkeys, which is, not surpris... 09/29/2009

SarahRae

SarahRae scribbled: What author Walt Maguire has created cannot justifiably be called a novel. “Monkey See” is an evaluation of human life, a social satire, a how-to guide for creating talking monkey children, an adv... 10/21/2009

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The Alphabet Challenge

from ENCPress in Books

A futuristic social satire about the big business of organized professional compassion, which has too much caring to do to care much for the amateur individualists traipsing all over its turf.

05/19/2009
bibleeohfile

bibleeohfile scribbled: I've spent the past week reading The Alphabet Challenge by Olga Gardner Galvin and found it completely brilliant. From the publisher's website: Set several decades in the future, the nearly unrecog... 09/15/2009

SarahRae

SarahRae scribbled: Olga Gardner Galvin’s The Alphabet Challenge depicts our world’s future as one that has transcended discrimination of all kinds, becoming compassionate and overly sensitive to the needs of the popu... 09/26/2009

fufuakaspeechless

fufuakaspeechless scribbled: The Alphabet Challenge is the story of a future world in which political correctness has been taken to an extreme level. Everyone has to be careful not to offend anyone else. PeopleCare helps makes... 10/01/2009

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Mean Martin Manning

from ENCPress in Books, Fiction

Can a grumpy old man, who hasn’t left his apartment in 30 years and just wants to be left alone, stand up to a relentlessly well-meaning social worker and her enforcers? He can. But to win this epic battle of wills, he’ll need to call on a lifetime of stubbornness and downright meanness, a patien...

05/19/2009
bibleeohfile

bibleeohfile scribbled: Author Scott Stein has crafted a very real and relatable world in his novel about a man who just wants to be left alone to live his life the way he wants. I wasn't quite sure if I was going to lik... 06/10/2009

fufuakaspeechless

fufuakaspeechless scribbled: Potential spoilers. Absolutely brilliant. Mean Martin Manning is the story of a man who just wants to be left alone. He lives in his apartment and avoids all human contact. When a social worker at... 08/12/2009

fujiwark

fujiwark scribbled: A funny satire about an individual342200231s rights in society. The protagonist342200231s quirks and annoyance at being disturbed make this dystopian novel fresh and engaging. 6 days ago

fujiwark

fujiwark scribbled: Scott Stein's "Mean Martin Manning" documents one man's transformative experience with "life-improvement" mandates. Protagonist Martin Manning has willfully shunned human contact for thirty years. ... 6 days ago

Devil Jazz

from ENCPress in Books, Fiction

How would mankind react to an alien named Armageddon suddenly stepping into the media spotlight and offering the world a new explanation of the origins of civilization? In New York, in the 21st century, things can go either way.

05/19/2009
derosa2035

derosa2035 scribbled: Picture the world as a plaything; sort of like a halfway house between good and evil. This is essentially what Craig Forgrave creates in his eye-opening novel Devil Jazz. When Satan reveals him... 05/23/2009

fufuakaspeechless

fufuakaspeechless scribbled: Devil Jazz is the story of an alien named Armageddon's appearance to the world at large. What people do not know is that he is really Satan in disguise. He is attempting to bring chaos to the world... 06/21/2009

MarketBOB

MarketBOB scribbled: Devil Jazz is my satirical novel about the Devil returning to Earth disguised as an Alien instead of a snake. His lies tempts us all into sin because there are too many commandments to obey them a... 09/24/2009

fujiwark

fujiwark scribbled: Craig Forgrave's Devil Jazz places the good versus evil story in modern times. Satan, posing as the friendly alien Armageddon, has risen from a long slumber in the ancient pyramids to aid humanity.... 10/20/2009

SarahRae

SarahRae scribbled: “Devil Jazz” begins with the depiction of a young man awaking to find himself floating in a boat with no recollection of his life before that moment, stumbling towards the Doomsday Diner bathroom w... 10/28/2009

Don't Call It "Virtual"

from ENCPress in Books, Fiction

A coven of time-traveling lesbian activists find themselves in the Alta California Republic in 2064 and realize that the future ain’t what it used to be.

05/19/2009

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