Bash Bash Revolution Softcover - 2018

This book is used, very minor to covers from normal storage, no markings inner pages. Spine intact, no creases. "A compelling coming-of-age artificial intelligence novel from Philip K. Dick Award-nominated author Douglas Lain.Seventeen-year-old Matthew Munson is ranked thirteenth in the state in Bash Bash Revolution, an outdated video game from 2002 that, in 2017, is still getting tournament play. He's a high school dropout who still lives at home with his mom, doing little but gaming and moping. That is, until Matthew's dad turns up again.Jeffrey Munson is a computer geek who'd left home eight years earlier to work on a top secret military project. Jeff has been a sporadic presence in Matthew's life, and much to his son's displeasure insists on bonding over video games. The two start entering local tournaments together, where Jeff shows astonishing aptitude for Bash Bash Revolution in particular.Then, as abruptly as he appeared, Matthew's father disappears again, just as he was beginning to let Jeff back into his life.The betrayal is life-shattering, and Matthew decides to give chase, in the process discovering the true nature of the government-sponsored artificial intelligence program his father has been involved in. Told as a series of conversations between Matthew and his father's artificial intelligence program, Bash Bash Revolution is a wildly original novel of apocalypse and revolution, as well as a poignant story of broken family." Good Reads "Douglas Lain is the publisher of Zero Books, a novelist, a blogger, and a podcaster. His first novel, entitled Billy Moon tells the story of Christopher Robin Milne's fictional involvement with the French general strike in May of 1968, and was released from Tor Books on August 27th of 2013. His second novel entitled After the Saucers Landed is about a Fluxus artist and Ufologist who sinks into a deep depression after the aliens arrive on schedule.Lain's first podcast entitled Diet Soap ran for over five years." Amazon