La oreja de Murdock

Fiction. You're sitting in a darkened theater, waiting for the movie to begin when American culture explodes all around in I-Max, Sensurround, Technicolor--this is the experience of reading Lance Olsen's brilliant 10:01, a novel in frames that unreels the random thoughts of a random movie audience: a screening of our own moment that Olsen lights with the white heat of a a projector beam. Be sure to check out Lance Olsen's other titles at SPD, including SEWING SHUT MY EYES.

"Relato de una pasion amorosa y erotica, narrada desde la soledad que crea la imposibilidad de fusion-posesion con el cuerpo amado. El centro de esa pasion absoluta es Aida. El amante ha contraido una adiccion: el cuerpo de Aida, y necesita dosis cada vez mayores para sobrevivir. Por eso llega a decir: ""el amor es una droga dura""."

The year is 2037, and on the tiny island of Isola, seven people have been selected to compete in a forty-eight-hour test for a top-secret intelligence position with the totalitarian Union of Friendship. One of them is Anna Francis. Her assignment: to stage her own death.

A well-researched novel explores Mexico's sometimes violent political climate and the assassination of presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio.