Bøker av Glenn Main

Rocky Collins is a successful toilet cleaner looking for his entrepreneurial break when opportunity arrives in the form of calamity and one Charly Stobble, also a calamity. Set in fictional town Shretlesbury UK, Last Time Stupid connects themes of belief and belonging, idiocy and inspiration, machines and mankind, governance and garbage, process and progress. A layered humorous romp with surprisingly few swear words. May also include dark humour and a sniff of social realism damning society to all hell. You're welcome. Cast of characters includes: 'Travelatorian' Ken and offsider Imp, tramps of another era but living this timeline; the perennially out of luck best friend Petes; the Collins family including indomitable Laoise and house shufflers Claire and Hunter; the new breed AI workers Lewis and Eugenia for the impossibly impressive Sir Clef Mongcreef, a leftover inventor whiz from the yuppy 80s. He's owner of Alison Interneuro, a towering giant of technology for the town and pivotal draw for everyone's activity - including two private agents, Floyd and Boyd, who are only here to help.Lastly and strangely, the sinister Tankly Leethers who has constructed his own towering enterprise in the badlots.

It's the earliest lickings of the twenty-first century, before technology had overwhelmed the people, had not co-opted them into vast zombie arrays, struck dumb gawping into screens getting angry, dunning downvotes whilst fending off too many ads shouting about fat stomachs and new cars. Where was I? Oh yeah the book. We're in small town Meltoon, population one smartphone per thousand. A simpler time, with complicated people acting like simpletons, to be stupefied by their governing harlots and shiftless cunners known in the profession as sitting members, representatives of a local council. A cunner is a type of fish and I was trying to sound smart making 'cunning' into a person - a cunner. Know what? Don't care. Keeping it fish. Frank Fullings is the mayor and he's having one hell of a season grappling commitments. Then his brother shows up in a nearby town after many years absence and we all know what that means : instant hatred. Family, after all.

Aniston is a citizen of the future, a government credited worker in the Historiographic Department, the one concerning itself with correcting the past to provide the best possible reality. But now his productivity is on the line and a solution must be found. Make two of him.

Jones has responded well to his environment, easing into a hopeless lifestyle of debauched calm. He's a professional slob existing for that next hit of tobacco, grifting between jobs and otherwise spending too much time at Strawn Tides where his dilapidated flat is. In every way then, the successful modern man (just without the money). But then a strange circumstance arises with strange people, a strange plant and strange things happening. It's really strange. It's really mysterious, too. It's a mystery and it's a strange [sic] and there is action. So much action. You can't move for the action. A tale of epic detective proportions just needing its epic detective. Is totally mongo! [NB., Mongo is short for Humongous. You probably knew this].

Ben Denning has won the competition of his life. A nobody from nowhere - along with six others - have been given the opportunity to live in a world without death. Tailing them are investigative reporters Karen and Johnny, who, like everyone else, have been locked out of this strange story. Operating inside a well guarded mountain is Forever 1-1, the company responsible for discovering the ultimate secret in Nature. "For that which makes all becomes all, in an eternity of creation." The Maker God.