Utopian Ordeal

By Rushton Woodside

In this story of the near future, Professor David Cunningham invents a device called the Cranial Tap, combining technologies available today. With some simple electronics and a complex computer program he enables the speechless to talk. The initial application enters society in use for dogs – causing a fun romp.

But with governmental hands gaining control of human use the device becomes a flawless lie detector, and even worse, a thought sensor. Cunningham finds the end result to be far from his intent, with society as we know it undergoing drastic changes. Some are for the better and some not. He eventually dies a lonely death in isolation, wrought with sorrow.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Rushton Woodside
• Release date: Aug 6, 2011
• ISBN: 9781465796486

Rushton Woodside

Born right at the mid-twentieth century point in Atlanta, still a sleepy southern city at that time. My mother's bookcase was filled with classics and I read them all before I was twelve, and re-read many. Steinbeck, Faulkner, Hemmingway and the like. For most of my life I have always had an active book going, if not two or three. Favorite types of books to read: Almost any genre of fiction, almost any non-fiction. I've travelled the country as a truck driver and as a rambler, and met thousands of people in thousands of circumstances. I've held dozens of jobs, from digging holes to making technical presentations in Board-rooms. I wrote a lot of poetry and songs as a teen. After a successful eight years writing computer programs and technical documentation I entered book retail, and stayed there for nearly twenty years. I read good books to know how to write, and read bad books on purpose to know how not to write. I completed my first novel in 2004 and it was published locally with great success. It was then that I got serious and studied many books on the craft, and began writing as often as possible. My seventh book is now in progress.

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