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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COMING IN JUNE 2012
Jeffrey R. DeRego
ESCAPE CLAUSE
A Union Dues novel
Think
having superpowers would be cool? Think again.
Strict legal guidelines must be followed to
the letter, public opinion molded by PR campaigns
in glossy, serial form, and you’ll never
get any thanks. The Union of Superhumans has
everything under control. Almost everything.
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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.
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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. (More...)
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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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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.
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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
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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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