Glass House 51
by John Hampel
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Pub Date Feb 28 2013 | Archive Date Jul 31 2013
Description
Glass House 51 is the insanely amazing adventure—or misadventure—of a lifetime, of one Richard Clayborne, a hard-charging young marketing maverick at gigantic AlphaBanc’s San Francisco branch.
Hyper-ambitious Richard has been offered an intriguing assignment: Get online via NEXSX and make e-time with the lovely, brilliant (and doomed) Chicagoan Christin Darrow. All to set a trap for the reclusive—and very deadly—computer genius, Norman Dunne, aka the Gnome.
Why? Three lovely young women dead in the streets of Chicago. And the Gnome, a former AlphaBanc employee, is the main suspect. But there just might be another AlphaBanc agenda in the works. . . .
Little does clueless Richard know what is in store: a tangled, twisted—and very treacherous—journey through the AlphaBanc underground, but by the time he realizes it, he’s in too deep to get out.
For Glass House 51, John Hampel set out to write an updated recombinant version of Orwell’s 1984 and Huxley’s Brave New World. Well, he doesn’t aim low.
The result is a long look into a primordial dystopia, future present—what's happening now with the techno/human layer gone bad—or actually going bad, as the world slouches along to oblivion.
This is where it all begins, ground zero, the beginning of the end—of privacy, freedom, dignity, perhaps civilization as we know it, the Dystopia Primeval.
In Glass House 51, as in his acclaimed first novel, Hampel’s clever and exuberant writing style dazzles, enthralls, and this time reminds us . . . you can run, but you can’t hide…
Hampel’s first book, Wherever You Go, There You Are, received excellent reviews in Publisher’s Weekly, Library Journal, ALA Booklist, to name a few. The hardcover edition sold out and was reissued as a trade paperback in March 2000.
Following the precarious path illuminated by Messrs. Orwell and Huxley, Hampel, who has been enormously influenced by Thomas Pynchon, James Joyce, John Updike, William Gibson, Kurt Vonnegut, and Tom Robbins, to name a few, has written an exceptional crazy-great book.
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Advance Praise
PRAISE FOR JOHN HAMPEL
Wherever You Go, There You Are
"In his freewheeling debut novel, Hampel dexterously weaves seemingly unrelated strands into a plot that combines mystery, science fiction, and fantasy. Hampel ably blends metaphysics with magic in a highly enjoyable and fast-paced book." — Publisher's Weekly
"There is no question about recommending Wherever You Go, There You Are. Rarely does a book come along that has such energy and originality , that can be about complex issues within a complex literary framework and still be funny and endearing . . . For accomplishing so much so well this could be a cult classic." — South Bend (Indiana) Tribune
". . . The book questions where we all sit in the grand scheme of things while remaining enormously funny, mysterious, and ultimately a work of natural wonder and beauty . . . it is a gem. Besides wonderfully animated, genuine characters and fascinating-to-the-point-of-mindbending storylines, [the author's] prose is poetic satisfaction. . ." — UWM Post
"A wonderful novel full of the humor and poetry of real life, it is also a mesmerizing tale of mystery and magic. . . . a marvelous story told with wit, humor, and a great deal of talent."
— Milwaukee Journal
"This is a snappy piece of New Age science fiction, the kind that combines technology with the powers of the mind. Here are Earth's energies melded with the romance of a midsummer's night deep in the country." — ALA Booklist
"This first novel combines magical realism with a hefty dose of the absurd, resulting in a New Age comedy that belongs in most s/f general fiction collections." — Library Journal
"Between the first page and the last we treated to a number of styles, a host of sendups of contemporary American values and society, and a love story. . . . The novel is easy to recommend. It operates well in so many ways that there is literally something for everyone.
— Door County Advocate
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| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9780962799228 |
| PRICE | $19.95 (USD) |
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