Circuits of the Wind (Volume 1)

Meet Ray Valentine: he's a young Internet user going online with his computer.

And that's amazing, because it's the '80s and the net's still completely underground.

An ambitious, sprawling and poetic coming-of-age novel told in three volumes, Circuits of the Wind is the story of Ray Valentine, a Midwest slacker who grows up in the online underground of the '80s and '90s, looking for a connection that's always just a little out of reach, and learning all the lessons that the rest of us are only facing now.

"Stutz writes with a grandness that exceeds the deadpan expectations that are associated with his generation of writers ... with all the grandeur of the influential [F. Scott] Fitzgerald himself." -- Kilimanjaro magazine

"Michael Stutz has created the Everyman of our wired age." -- Tony D'Souza, author of Whiteman, The Konkans, and Mule, which has been optioned for film by Warner Bros.

"The descriptive passages in the book are funny, true to life and quite lyrical. Michael Stutz has an amazing ability with words ... [r]ead this book to learn the story of the beginning of the "net" generation. I believe Circuits of the Wind will be savored by techies, geeks and computer nerds." -- Library of Clean Reads

A coming of age tale of the early internet and the impact on an unsuspecting world, "Circuits of the Wind" provides a very human story set on a backdrop of technology few truly understand, very much recommended. -- Midwest Book Review

"The descriptive passages in the book are funny, true to life and quite lyrical. Michael Stutz has an amazing ability with words ... [r]ead this book to learn the story of the beginning of the "net" generation. I believe Circuits of the Wind will be savored by techies, geeks and computer nerds." -- Library of Clean Reads

Volume 1 of Circuits of the Wind follows a young Raymond from his '70s childhood—and first gropings with the telephone—to the home computers and bulletin boards of the '80s, where he leads a double life as a wanderer of the wires. But when even his virtual best friend unplugs, Raymond might have to leave it, too—because isn't real life supposed to be offline?