Michael Stutz

Circuits of the Wind: a Legend of the Net Age (Volume 3) Michael Stutz

LITERARY FICTION / AMERICAN LITERATURE

The Internet is everywhere now, but Ray Valentine saw it first explode.

Circuits of the Wind, a coming-of-age novel in three volumes, is the very human story of Ray's quest to find himself as he grows up online, wandering the computer underground--the wild, global outback that existed before the net went mainstream. How else does an end-of-century slacker reach out to the world from Sohola, that northern state that's a little more Midwest than it is New England? The net holds the key to what he's after--but even as he pioneers this virtual world, the veneer of his real life begins to crack.

In VOLUME THREE of the novel, Ray gets a data entry job with an outbound line just so he can live constantly, and secretly, on the net--and after he succeeds in business without really trying, he finds even more excitement and success as an online correspondent in the booming Web of the dot-com Nineties. He's living on the net, feeding off the very pulse of it, but it's still not what he's after--his entire life of wandering online seems to be a total waste. Or is it?