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John Sundman’s Books
Acts of the Apostles
A thriller about nanomachines, neurobiology, Gulf War Syndrome, and a Silcon Valley messiah.
"...a book infused with a sensibility that you don't normally expect a 'hard science fiction' novel to have: real emotions, real heartbreak and a real sense of the craziness at the core of the human condition."
—Andrew Leonard, Salon.com
Cheap Complex Devices
An anthology of the winners of the inaugural Hofstadter Prize for Machine-Written Narrative, with a preface by the editor and an introduction by the Hofstadter Prize Committee
"Cheap Complex Devices is astonishing, on just about every level a book can be astonishing."
—Rusty Foster, Kuro5hin.org
The Pains
In Freemerica, where Orwell's 1984 is fused with Ronald Reagan's 1984, a young monk tries to save the world from disintegration.
"All three of Sundman's books are somewhere between excellent and brilliant. ... The Pains touches upon the key issues of our time: it is a book which is philosophical to the point of being mystical."
—Michael Allen, Grumpy Old Bookman
Creation Science
conspiracy, duplicity, double-crosses, dispensational Christian fascism, misunderstandings, confusions, car crashes, megalomaniacal villains (in and out of government), explosions, gunplay, Russian Mafias, neuroscience, coincidence, mysterious islands not far from Cape Cod, information theory, love, regret, remorse, nostalgia and sex.
Published by late spring 2010, if not sooner. Pre-orders much appreciated.
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Acts of the Apostles
When Flounders Unite, or I’m a “well-known author”
Got this note a few days ago from a friend — the fan of my books I mentioned in a recent post who treated me to dinner in St. Louis:
My grandfather defined “well known” as meaning that everyone who knows you, knows you well…
I was talking to a colleague in my latest venture, the other day, while we were both in Boston for a meeting. Somehow it came up that I’d worked at the Mill. She said “Oh! If you’ve worked there, there’s a book you should read!”. I said: “I’ve read it”. She said, “Oh, no, this one is hard to find”. I said: “… and it was written by my pal John Sundman, late of D.G., now a fireman”. Good fun watching the jaw drop.
Apparently she knows you too: $reader2. Best wishes from both of us.
[signed]-$reader1
In fact, I’ve also been to dinner with $reader2 –in Menlo Park, California, six years ago. Our dinner party included Dear Wife, $reader2′s husband, and KFJC disc jockey Ann Arbor, who has read portions of my novels on her legendary radio show “Dancing in the Fast Lane.” (I got in touch with $reader1 after she sent me a check in the mail for 9 autographed copies of Acts of the Apostles to give to her friends — that’s how much she liked it. (Buy ten books from me, and I’ll get in touch with you, too! Maybe we can go out for dinner sometime!) I don’t recall how Ann Arbor & $reader2 became friends. I vaguely recall that my books were the catalyst, but I’m not sure about that.)
It is nice to be “well known” as a writer, to have passionate fans who become my friends. And it’s fun when people meet & randomly discover they share an interest in my books. I kinda wish the fan club had a few more members, but hey, as Ray Davies murmurs on “Muswell Hillbillies”, the best Kinks album ever, “it’s so lovely to be wanted. . .”
(In preparing this little post I wasted an hour trying to find a youtube clip of Rocky & Bullwinkle where Rocky finds a message in a bottle and Bullwinkle says “Fan mail from some flounder?” and Rocky says, “No, this is something really important!” before they cut to a commercial. Anyway, that’s it for me in this sketch. For something really important you’ll probably have to wait for the next post from Stearns or Harold.)