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Friends Without Faces
R. Alex Whitlock
I've more-or-less settled on what my November Novel is going to be. Here's the intro thingie:
Before the World Wide Web, people from across the country logged on to local computer Bulletin Board Systems. Computers and modems were far more expensive and less ubiquitous at the time and those who spent their time and social lives through a computer monitor and phone line were the smartest and strangest of people.
Casey Boone logged on to The Sanctum, a local BBS in Houston, and kicked his previously nascent social life in to high gear. In the ten years since, he's become a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and has watched what he once saw as a digital utopia commodified and dumbed down into something he barely could barely recognize. Through a chance encounter with a mysterious former BBS peer he is notified that Erin Henshaw, the benefactor to the BBS that redefined his life, was murdered.
The funeral evolves into a reunion of sorts for the Sanctum crowd. Neil Chambers, his former mentor, is days away from being elected to congress on a platform that is anathema to the Neil that he once knew. His old flame Shannon McBride, once the belle of the Sanctum ball, is living a lonely life in the suburbs. Many of the best and brightest people that he knew slipped into mediocrity or worse. Underneath his happy memories of a tightly knit community was something dark that some were unable to escape. Something that may have gotten Erin Henshaw killed.
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