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Hooray for Holopticon
Hooray for Holopticon
Hooray for Holopticon
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A lighthearted adventure set in a future world not too different from our own.  The paranoid Tax Authority, afraid of a wonderful new product developed by Holopticon (maker of holographic viewers), starts a bureaucratic war with the brave little company.  With backup from the home office, three resourceful Holopticon employees beard the agency in its den.  But despite exploding toilets, omnivorous ducks, bad computer poetry, and occasional appearances by a mythical ninja detective, most everyone manages to have a pretty good time.  As Holopticon's (maddening) office computer might say it: "They bite bureaucracy on the nose / And come out smelling like a rose."  Think Jane Austen meets Ocean's Eleven meets Office Space.  PG-13, with a tight, satisfying plot and some very funny scenes.

Also contains preview of Overload Flux (A Central Galactic Concordance Novel) by Carol Van Natta.

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Release dateJan 18, 2015
ISBN9781502281340
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Carol Van Natta

Carol Van Natta is USA TODAY bestselling author of science fiction and fantasy. Works include the Central Galactic Concordance space opera series that starts with Overload Flux, and the Ice Age Shifters paranormal romance series that starts with Shifter Mate Magic. She shares her Fort Collins, CO home with a sometime mad scientist and various mad cats. Sign up for her newsletter at https://bit.ly/CVN-news or at her website, https://Author.CarolVanNatta.com. Come say hello on Facebook at facebook.com/CarolVanNattaAuthor.

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