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Mike Burbank, fresh out of college, believes that a cheery smile and bottomless drawer of fun socks is enough to keep him going at his new career at Infinitech. While all his friends find the work soul-sucking, Mike refuses to let his neighborhood faceless tech company bring him down.When a senior executive tears down Mike's seemingly perfect sales proposal, Mike is forced to relive his humiliation over and over again in a time loop. Will he win over upper management before his sanity crumbles? Is there a limit to how many times one can hear "TGIF" before one's sanity snaps? Only time will tell...(No groundhogs were harmed in the writing of this novel.)…
There's no such thing as summer vacation at Heller High School, which its students have turned into a Silicon Valley dystopia in the name of self-improvement and maintaining a competitive edge. Marco Aguilar isn't too keen on this-he'd rather spend his summer playing video games-but he's forced to take part in his school's political infighting when the school president decides he has potential for greatness.His misadventures, including playing wingman to a controversial courtship between one of his friends and the school's vice president, reveal that for all of Heller's focus on the future, nobody can truly escape the past. While Marco grows closer to uncovering the truth behind the school's totalitarian regime, all Marco wants is a break from it all, and if he's not careful, he'll never have a vacation again.…
College student Chris Marley agrees to help an enigmatic professor test a cutting-edge AI tool, but discovers he's entered into a Faustian bargain, and must fight to resist the temptation of power and save his soul.~~~In this modern reimagining of the Faust myth, Chris Marley, a student at Southern California University, joins an enigmatic professor's research team testing Project Narcissus, a new AI content-generation tool. Limited only by his imagination, Chris invents new talents and accomplishments to erase his shortcomings. His only proof is what he can conjure with Project Narcissus, but the evidence doesn't lie--or so people believe.Though his fabrications earn him fame, fortune, and a girlfriend, the more Chris embraces his new persona, the more he sacrifices to maintain it. When his unconditional access to Project Narcissus expires, Chris must choose between the temptations of his unfettered creativity and preserving his authentic self.Readers have said:"I find this novel most intriguing as a chronicle of our modern age. Much may be gleaned by studying past stumbles and missteps, that we may avoid repeating history's mistakes." - George Washington"What's the deal with this novel? I gotta tell ya, it was quite a story. Really made me think, you know?" - Jerry Seinfeld"The ending leaves unclear whether he has gained wisdom. I suppose we cannot expect profound personal growth in the span of a novel!" - Lizzie Bennet"Perchance this tale can serve as a caution for us [all]... For as quickly as dreams are conjured, they can turn to nightmares when born of thoughtless fancy." - Puck…
A misguidedly idealistic high school student founds a club to teach his classmates philosophy; when it becomes a cult, he must change course before the whole school drinks the Kool-Aid.Frank can think of no better way to prove his classmates have no moral compass than to write a manifesto satirically arguing for the virtues of selfishness; when this attempt at shining a light on his classmates' behavior is taken at face value, he creates a club to spread his teachings, hoping his ironies will be more obvious on a grander scale. The authoritarian rule of law he establishes meets little resistance from his club members, even as he wonders privately when they'll have enough and choose a more virtuous path. While Frank earnestly seeks to help his classmates, his methodology proves misguided in practice, and Frank must find where to draw the line before he permanently ruins his beloved high school. But then again, being a cult leader is too much fun to pass up... You Must Remember This adapts the foundation of Catch-22 in a high school setting, applying the same notion of dystopian bureaucracy to lampoon Silicon Valley's competitive spirit and, in these politically charged times, comment on the fragility of our own democracy. CW: minor character death (non-graphic), dark psychological themes (e.g. gaslighting), authoritarian regimes (including references to communism and Nazism)"Amazing, terrible, bourgeois horror""At first I thought the story was about silicone implants""I highly recommend this book to anyone who loves the classic American English course reading list or just wants to read something that will make them think."…
A series of short (and long) vignettes that explore what happened, could have happened, or hasn't yet happened to your favorite characters from You Must Remember This, one that brings us closer to the most important question of all: how to be a good person.CW: dark psychological themes, sexual harassment, non-graphic character death, non-graphic attempted suicide…
