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Corporations grow to such a scale, and exert such influence, that some become more powerful and larger than national economies. It's a world where individual preferences take precedent over social responsibility.
It's a world of extreme talent. Exceptional people are in high demand, so employers secure a core group of pivotal high-performers by offering excellent rewards. But workforces are lean and organisations bringing in flexible talent and skills as and when they're needed.
We will see worlds within worlds from the windows of our fast car. Wemight even see the end of the world, and we might sit on a front porchfor a while and sip a glass of gasoline on a hot December day.
Novels are limousines, stately and smooth. Some of them can ride liketanks, slow and heavy, well-armored. The fast cars of short stories:those are the vehicles that let us zoom close to the ground, with thewind in our hair and the speedometer's needle vibrating on thedangerous edge. Sometimes they're hard to handle; they have minds oftheir own, and they call for close attention. They can crash and burnso easily, but their sleek power yearns for speed. In such a fast car,we can go anywhere. No locked door can keep us out, and if we want tosee what lies around the next bend, or the next hill, all we have todo is steer toward it. We'll be there, roaming through the torturedland, with the lights of other lives and different worlds passing oneither side.
Publisher's Weekly
Rapid-fire action alternating with intense introspection, plus imagery thatconjures visions of movie special effects, make McCammon's (The Wolf'sHour) multifaceted collection of new and reprinted tales worthwhiledespite some uninspired story lines. In the title novella, Father JohnLancaster battles temptations of the flesh and becomes a better priest ashe saves the life of a cocaine-snorting porn queen. At the end of theworld, described in "Something Passed By," the laws of nature goawry: water becomes combustible, concrete turns to quicksand, people moveswiftly toward old age or infancy. A Vietnam veteran's nightmaresmaterialize in "Nightcrawlers," yielding terror and death for hisassociates. "He'll Come Knocking at Your Door" trivializes theFaustian pact by having the devil arrive for trick-or-treat on Halloween tocollect his due. An old-fashioned cliff-hanger concludes each segment of"Night Calls the Green Falcon," in which a retired cinemasuperhero takes up his cape again to stalk a real-life prostitute'smurderer. (Apr.)
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