Hooray for Holopticon

Retro Science Fiction Comedy • Adventure • General Silliness

A lighthearted adventure set in a future world not too different from our own. The paranoid Tax Authority, afraid of a wonderful new product developed by Holopticon (maker of holographic viewers), starts a bureaucratic war with the brave little company. With backup from the home office, three resourceful Holopticon employees beard the agency in its den. But despite exploding toilets, omnivorous ducks, bad computer poetry, and occasional appearances by a mythical ninja detective, most everyone manages to have a pretty good time. As Holopticon’s (maddening) office computer might say it: “They bite bureaucracy on the nose / And come out smelling like a rose.” Think Jane Austen meets Ocean’s Eleven meets Office Space. PG-13, with a tight, satisfying plot and some very funny scenes.

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This novel was originally written in 1990, before the days of the internet, and languished in the metaphorical drawer for twenty years. When independent publishing became respectable, the authors made the book available through ebook retailers.

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This digital edition also contains free preview of Overload Flux (A Central Galactic Concordance Novel), a science fiction-action-romance by co-author Carol Van Natta.