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

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.