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The New York State Library looms as a silent sanctuary of knowledge: a hundred-year-old labyrinth of towering bookcases, narrow aisles, and spiral staircases. But for Dr Stephen Swain and his eight-year-old daughter Holly it is a place of nightmare. Because, for just one night, this historic building is to become the venue for a horrifying contest... a contest in which Swain must compete, whether he likes it or not.
Added by: arcadius | Karma: 2802.10 | Fiction literature | 3 August 2010
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Slapstick or Lonesome No More
Dr. Wilbur Daffodil-11 Swain, centenarian, the last President of the US, King of Manhattan, and one-half of the most powerful intelligence since Einstein, is penning his autobiography. He occupies the 1st floor of a ruined Empire State Building and lives like a royal scavenger with his illiterate granddaughter. Buffeted by fluctuating gravity, the U.S. has been scourged by not one, but two lethal diseases: the Green Death and the Albanian Flu. Consequently, the country has fallen into civil war. Swain stayed at the White House until there were no citizens left to govern.
