James Cortese

The Year of the Slug James Cortese

With the dot-com bubble in full swing, a high-flying software tycoon can't quite decide if the man he killed has taken over his body or he's just insane. Or maybe the answer is in a 1930s sci-fi novel that isn't a novel at all, but an alien instruction manual. "When a very rich software CEO refuses to believe that he's an alien from another planet, things begin to go from bad to worse when he falls in love with a beautiful strip club dancer named Veronique who has no doubt of her alien origins. This clever, ambitious send-up of the dot-com zanies, begins in a very strange place and then quickly gets much stranger. . . . It's a helluva ride. You might not fall in love with the narrator's wise-cracking voice, but you won't be able to stop listening." --Tichnor Reviews