Author Description

The San Francisco Chronicle called R. F. Laird's The Boomer Bible (Workman Publishing, 1991) "the oddest, darkest, smartest, funniest, most innovative book to come along in years." In his latest work, Laird has left paper and ink behind, but Shuteye Town 1999 lives up to and surpasses the same set of adjectives. It is a massive work designed expressly for multimedia presentation on CD/ROM, and it may well set a new standard for the way computer technology is used by creative writers and game designers. So new that it defies description, Shuteye Town 1999 contains over 2,500 graphics files for users to explore via thousands of hyperlinks, as well as multiple book-length hypertext manuscripts. Yet the work is neither book nor game. It more closely resembles a computer-based hall of mirrors in which we can laugh and cry at what we have become - as a nation and as individuals. Requires IBM(TM) compatible PC and Microsoft Word 97(TM).