Jim Munroe

Salgood Sam

"Once the Christians have floated bodily into the sky, life goes on pretty much as usual for the immoral majority... . except that magic works . . . "-Publisher.

Therefore, Repent!

10 short stories about the city's future

Toronto 2033

Ever walked in on a roommate in, uh, the middle of something? When Kate interrupts Lilith’s demonic ritual, it’s pretty awkward, but it gives her a great idea for a new online journal: roommatefromhell.com. Whether her roommate is unholy or just unhinged, Kate’s not sure. But she knows a good show when she sees it, and she convinces her bombshell pal to perform her strange ceremony at their art gallery launch. Then she gets a booker at the local rock club to let them open for a metal band, and the kids love it. They decide to take the show on the road, and somewhere along the way Kate’s role changes from tour manager to go-go dancer. It’s fun, but she can’t ignore the creepy people from Lilith’s past that are coming to their shows. And as the rituals get more intense and more bloody, Kate starts to wonder if she’s gotten in a little too deep. It’s not quite rock and roll, but she could still lose her soul.

An Opening Act of Unspeakable Evil

Flyboy Action Figure Comes with Gasmask

With over 500 poems to his credit, Jim Munroe continues to put pen to paper to memorialize life's events for family, friends, and coworkers. His writing style encompasses the emotions felt when celebrating the birth of a child, grieving the loss of a loved one, or when sharing the joy of a retirement or an anniversary. His work has been published in local newspapers, social media and has been included in popular NSA Hall of Fame Speaker Barbara Glanz's book, Care Packages for the Workplace. His life resume includes the following highlights. He is a US Navy submarine veteran. He is a husband and father. His most notable position is as a doting grandfather called Boppa! He is a member of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators and now adds children's book author to his growing resume.

The Sneezing Toucan

In 2036 the prestige technology of choice is Self, a service that offers the ultimate upgrade. People are having their minds digitally transferred to a place called Frisco, a privately-owned reality that overlays the destroyed San Francisco. But most people aren't considering it a metaphysical leap of faith, or weighing the quality of life in a corporate nation -- they're going to Frisco because that's where the jobs are. Not everyone's gone virtual, however. Doug's a coolhunter past his prime who's scrambling to get the money together for a Self package his family's not ashamed of. Nicky's a genetic artist getting by with a ratdog scam, thrilled that rents in Vancouver have dropped with all the emigration. Eileen hasn't seen her little boy for days and worries he's gone to Frisco without her. Luckily she used to have a job hunting humans... Everyone in Silico is science fiction with characters as deeply contradictory as the fractured world they inhabit. It's science fiction that is more interested in the future of the suburbs and subcultures than in how a laser tank or lightspeed works.

Everyone in Silico

In Vancouver in 2036, people are tired of the rain. They're willing to give up a lot for guaranteed sunshine, a life with no wasted hours. A life free of crime and disease. A life that ends when you want it to, not when some faceless entity decides it's your time. Those who don't buy in - the poor, the old, the paranoid - have to watch as their loved ones, their friends, and their jobs leave the city. They have to watch as the latest prestige technology, Self, changes everything - not just the world but humanity itself. On the bright side, the rents have dropped. And in several unexpected ways, resistance is growing. This fascinating work of fiction tells what can happen when the cyberworld becomes more important than the real world.Munroe is a Canadian science fiction author, who publishes his works independently under the imprint No Media Kings. He was managing editor at the magazine Adbusters in the 1990s, before publishing his debut novel Flyboy Action Figure Comes With Gasmask in 1999. The following he release Angry Young Spaceman through his No Media Kings imrpint and, in the U.S., Four Walls Eight Windows. A couple of years later he published Everyone in Silico, which was promoted partly by Munroe's attempt to invoice corporations mentioned in the novel for product placement. Munroe's most recent books are graphic novels set in post-Rapture Chicago and Detroit.Munroe was the founder of Perpetual Motion Roadshow, a North American indie touring circuit that sent 100 writers, performers and musicians on the road between 2003-2007. A former video games columnist for Eye Weekly, he is a founding board member of the Hand Eye Society and has produced projects such as the Torontron.

Recent college graduate Sam Breen takes his diploma and class of 2959 ring and heads for the underwater civilization of the planet Octavia to teach English. Original.

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