IN TIMES
LIKE THESE
ENC PRESS’S TRADEMARK SATIRE
In times like these,
it is difficult not to write satire.
— Juvenal
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Walt Maguire
MONKEY SEE
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? (More...)
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Richard Kaempfer
$EVERANCE
A scathing satire
about the current state of the consolidated
mainstream broadcast media, an insight into
the way the political parties have managed
to convert broadcasting into a partisan screech-fest,
and a spotlight on who and what really runs
the media. (More...) |
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Scott Stein
MEAN MARTIN MANNING
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 patience
rarely seen, and more than a little luck. (More...)
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Beth Elliott
DON’T
CALL IT “VIRTUAL”
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. (More...)
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Olga Gardner Galvin
THE ALPHABET CHALLENGE
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. (More...)
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David A.
Brensilver
ExecTV
Fast-forwarding
Reality TV to its logical extreme, an unemployed
documentary filmmaker extraordinaire arranges
to have an execution broadcast live on pay-per-view
television, in as flamboyant a form as his bizarre
vision can conjure to amuse the masses.
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Craig Forgrave
DEVIL JAZZ
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. (More...)
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Andrew Thomas Breslin
MOTHER’S MILK
A
young, emphatically non-idealistic attorney
finds herself in Washington, DC, working for
a group of radical nutrition advocates with
a passionate distaste for cow milk. Little
does she suspect that their militant intolerance
for lactose is a reaction to a secret global
conspiracy orchestrated by the dairy industry,
itself a puppet of alien masters from a distant
planet orbiting the star Vega. (More...)
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Mark A. Rayner
THE AMADEUS NET
Wolfgang
Amadeus Mozart is alive and in love, living
in the world’s first sentient city,
Ipolis. Lucky for both of them, nobody knows,
but how long can it stay that way? (More...)
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Yevgheniy Zamyatin
WE: A XXI-Century Translation
The
first dystopia ever, it started asking uncomfortable
questions about individuals, collectives, revolutions,
progress — and the collectives’ rights
to individuals’ souls in the name of revolutions
and progress. (More...)
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FICTION
FOR THE NONFICTION READER
BETTER PUNDITRY THROUGH LITERATURE |
Justin Bryant
SEASON OF ASH
South
Africa, 1994: A country caught between its
violent past and its hopes for the future,
between the beauty of its wildlife and the
squalor of its shantytowns. This simple human
tale ponders the unpredictability of ways
in which history can alter lives — and
of the roads that choose us. (More...)
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Liam Bracken
EXIT ONLY
A
suspenseful, multihued novel of Saudi Arabia
as it’s seen through the eyes of expatriates
of various origins and social standings who
have one thing in common: they are all leaving
it forever, on the same plane hurtling toward
its destiny. (More...)
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NOTES
FROM THE INVISIBLE
ON THE OUTSIDE, LOOKING IN |
Michael Antman
CHERRY WHIP
An
eccentric young Japanese jazz artist, obsessed with
new sensations and new experiences, arrives for
a career-making gig in New York City, where his
quirky adventures are abruptly overshadowed by illness,
guilt, and betrayal. (More...)
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David Gurevich
VODKA FOR BREAKFAST
A saga of love, friendship, life, drugs, and opportunities
almost lost on an ex-KGB company man who leads
a seemingly decent immigrant’s life of quiet
desperation in New York. (More...)
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MADCAP
LAUGHS
WRY ROMPS FROM ENGLAND’S SHARPEST |
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Andrew Hook
MOON BEAVER
A comic satire of big business, the cult of individuality,
and the teasing quality of time, this is
an adventure story for those who hate adventure
stories. (More...)
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Sarah Crabtree
TERROR FROM BEYOND MIDDLE
ENGLAND
Small-town temp saves the world in this tale about
friends, lovers, dysfunctional families, genetic
modification, and all kinds of weird stuff
that nobody expects to stumble across in a
prim and proper English town. (More...)
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DO
WE HAVE TO DRAW YOU A PICTURE?
ILLUSTRATED GIFT EDITION SATIRE, PERFECT
FOR ANY OCCASION
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Ray Cavanaugh
DEAR MR. UNABOMBER
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 futile blogger slacktivism. (More...)
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RATED NC-17
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Mark Mandell
DIARY OF A XX-CENTURY ELIZABETHAN
POET
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.
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