From time to time we like to promote exciting new and upcoming book releases which stand out as both original and entertaining. One such book is the excellent 'Zanesville', by Kris Saknussemm. This sweeping, satirical first novel envisions a not-so-distant future America in which earthquakes and holy wars have wreaked havoc on thenational psyche, and the people are either reclusive and superrich or damaged victims of misguided technologies. Into this schizophrenic landscape steps Elijah Clearfather, a mysterious, super-mentally-gifted amnesiac whocan bring his enemies to their knees simply by chanting tongue twisters. Found by a clandestine community of rebel hackers living in Central Park,Clearfather bears a striking resemblance to a former porn-star-turned-cult-leader executed, Waco-style, by the FBI.

Possessing the ability to infiltrate and unhinge the minds of those around him, Clearfather is ultimately deemed too dangerous for community membership andis ceremoniously packed onto a Greyhound bus with a makeover and a mapleading him back through his haunted past. Thus Clearfather is launched on amadcap journey that involves errant 3D-advertising icon Dooley Duck; an unlikely friendship with a wealthy adolescent drug addict and Warhol, amutant bull mastiff; and the love of Kokomo, an enigmatic girl whose past may be as mysterious as his own. Part picaresque, part brilliantly inventive black comedy, Zanesville is one of the most creative, edgy, and entertaining novels sf has spawned in a decade.- Carl Hays

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I will look out for this. Sounds interesting!

Saknussemm, that's not his real last name is it? that's also the last name of a professor in Jules Vern's Journy to the Center of the Earth. if it is his real name, what weird coincidence. ^^ yup does sound interesting though.

It does indeed sound look an interesting read. Hope it gest released down under!