Loading Las Vegas
by Charles Potts
$12.00
Current Press
Loading Las Vegas
Winner of Manuscript International's $2,500 14th annual First Place Novel award for creative excellence in fiction
This cyberpunk novel set in Las Vegas at COMDEX is a satire on neural computing and the microstructure of cognition. The largest and as yet unsolved computational problem is how to electronically reproduce the human eye's capacity for visual information processing in realtime (VIPIR). Bill Stinet, the antagonist in LLV has such technology for sale. Will Annette Fauber, the trendoid reporter find out how it works in time?
"You'll be rewarded with an entertaining and fascinating look at what our world may be turning into."
Gordon Thomas, Palouse Journal, Moscow, Idaho
"I can say with certainty that Loading Las Vegas would be a best seller if published by a major house."
Jon Reilly, Founder and former manager of the Madison Co-op Bookstore
"This is a strange sci-fi story...Charles Potts is no Phillip K. Dick."
Jon Christensen, Great Basin, Vol 2 No. 1, Spring 1997, Carson City, Nevada
"Could Charles Potts, that distinguished looking author in suit and tie inside the back cover of Loading Las Vegas, really be the hip young hellraiser who edited the small Salt Lake magazine Litmus nearly 30 years ago and drew a few brave souls to his Cosmic Aeroplane book signing for A Rite to the Body?...The literary hell he's raising these days satirizes high and low techno trash (sex, cybernetics and sci-fi),...Potts' vision of a future in which the television-anesthetized masses can jettison any real emotions or intellectual curiosity they may have accidentally held onto by plugging into a totally computerized consciousness has just enough of a crackpot edge to evoke nervous laughter."