Milo’s Reckoning
When Milo Rossi, a graduate student in Italian at New York University, is awakened one morning by a Westchester county policeman and told that his mentor apparently has hanged himself, he instinctively distrusts the coroner’s verdict. After all, he’d just the night before spent the evening in Lenny D’Ambrosio’s company, discussing literature in translation and the complicated life and death of Primo Levi and had not detected a trace of melancholy. Searching for clues that will explain Lenny’s demise brings Milo in contact with an acquaintance of his brother Carlo, who died in a car accident four years earlier. The [...]
The Adjudicator
Award-winning author Susan Daitch's new novel, The Adjudicator, is a visionary cyberpunk thriller that explores the boundaries of consciousness and individual autonomy within an authoritarian state which controls the genetics of its citizens. In a near future where the surveillance state legislates the genetic code of its citizens, Zedi Loew is an anomaly. She has mirror-touch synaesthesia and experiences the emotions and sensations of anyone she encounters. It’s something she must keep secret, because in a world of perfect genetic control, neurological disorders shouldn’t exist. As an adjudicator, she fixes mistakes, investigates cases brought against the powerful gene-tailoring corporation she [...]
