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66 Feb 2009 AI bIo enhAnCeD nAno neURo hUMoR FoReVeR YoUng nAno neURo hUMoR "Greatest. techno-thriller. Period." —William O'Brien, Director of Cybersecurity and Communications Policy at The White House "daemon does for surfing the Web what "Jaws" did for swimming in the ocean." —Chicago Sun-Times on sale noW d Dutton | A member of Penguin Group (USA) Experience the New World Order by the New York Times Bestselling Author Daniel Suarez www.thedaemon.com perpetual relevance; the struggle with the big guns of the Fortune 33 is everyman's struggle in the 21st century; and semblants are an extension of the mind-state that woman in Tokyo was in when she got arrested. We shift our center of identity into digital representations. We overlap with our technology. And sometimes that's a useful enhancement — other times it only magnifi es what's wrong with us, as with hackable e-voting machines. And then there's that black Stock Market—what's more relevant in the age of bailouts? So black glass was relevant. I just had to update its tech, environmental and cultural references and recognize that my pulp-infl ected metaphor may be at the pop end of art, but it's vitalized by the pointed honesty of its symbols. In the updated black glass, Candle stalks through the mordantly named "Autopia," where people live in improvised structures composed of abandoned gasoline- engine cars. he negotiates "Rooftown," a towering shanty complex populated by refugees from the great swamp of global warming. The street has its own uses for things, and Candle uses technology exclusive to the rich and powerful, a fl ying self-driving car, to infi ltrate his enemy's restricted skyscraper compound. It all came together — because technology itself is metaphor, and when I look around at it, I fi nd that technology is speaking to us. Technology itself is telling us stories. only, you've got to have the nerve to tell them. And there's one thing black glass has for sure… It's a "pulp novel of ideas"—with big fucking balls. ReSoURCeS black glass: The Lost Cyberpunk novel http: //www.eldersignpress.com/?page_id=60