Early Stuff

Summary

Seventeen prescient tales of the near future: from global chaos to our obsession with celebrities, from virtual reality to the final flooding of Calcutta, from genetic engineering to the future of the Internet. A truly perceptive mind sized it all up decades before most people realized what was going down.

Table of Contents

Images 1

Island Vacation 13

Arm of Decision 21

The Jewelry Shop 31

Helpful Harry 39

Career Fair 51

Death Looked Down 61

Older Patterns 99

Online 109

Her Big Chance 129

Rollout! 147

Djinnetic Code 155

Job Fair 175

The Ascension of Saint Susan 187

May/December at the Mall 203

Continuing Ed 213

Falling Forward 219

About the Author 227

About the Author

Brian Dana Akers grew up in Kalamazoo, Michigan and spent his teenage years building telescopes, reading science fiction, and practicing Yoga. He started six years of undergraduate and graduate studies at the University of Michigan in 1975, with his senior year abroad in India. His studies included Sanskrit and Indian history.

Brian then left for the San Francisco Bay Area and worked as a typographer and network manager. In July of 1991-with sun, moon, and earth aligned in the Golfo de California-he met Loretta, moved to New York, and married her.