Jack Womack, Author George Weidenfeld & Nicholson $0 (259p) ISBN 978-1-55584-082-2
Set in a future New York City that seems like a horrible amalgam of A Clockwork Orange's London, modern-day Beirut and Germany during the Thirty Years' War, this thriller, Womack's first novel, does not live up to its ambitious theme. In 21st...
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Futurist wunderkind Womack (Random Acts of Senseless Violence) concludes his heralded Ambient series with this intriguing, clever novel set in an alternate, semihistorical 1968. Some details are familiar: the Velvet Underground is playing small New
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Jack Womack, Author Grove/Atlantic $16.95 (227p) ISBN 978-1-55584-165-2
A droll and disturbing novel about time-travel, Womack's second work (after Ambient ) presents a vision of the pastNew York circa 1939every bit as frightening as its vision of the future. The narrator-protagonist, Luther, is a spy for an American...
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Jack Womack, Author Tor Books $16.95 (215p) ISBN 978-0-312-85078-4
In the same surrealistic style of Ambient and Terraplaneok? , Womack's third novel takes place in an alternate America run by the Dryden Corporation (Dryco), whose owner, Thatcher Dryden, has engineered the assassinations of three presidents while...
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Jack Womack, Author Atlantic Monthly Press $21 (255p) ISBN 978-0-87113-577-3
A sort of prequel to his previous novels (Ambient, Elvissey, etc.), Womack's latest may be his best, a dark and riveting look at where our disintegrating, crime-ridden society may be headed. The only difference between Womack's near-future New York...
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Jack Womack, Author Tor Books $12.95 (319p) ISBN 978-0-312-85202-3
Womack ( Ambient ) astounds and entertains in this adventure featuring a young Elvis Presley kidnapped into a future in which he becomes a deity. Though the plot suggests the ridiculous, this is, in fact, a deep, often theological, reflection on...
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Jack Womack, Author Atlantic Monthly Press $23 (0p) ISBN 978-0-87113-627-5
In today's Russia, everyone's out for profit--especially Max Borodin, the hero of Womack's entertaining but uneven new thriller (after Random Acts of Senseless Violence, 1994). By equal turns officious and wryly humorous, Max, a former bureaucrat,...
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