The Bo®ing Book

<p><strong>Boredom ought to be harmless - until it rewrites a life.</strong><br>Three writers enter a contest to tell the most boring story in human history. What follows is anything but. Our narrator confesses a maybe-crime recruits the reader as a co-conspirator then ejects us without apology asserting the creator's power while the world around him comes apart: a Great Nameless City sliding into dictatorship media feeding perversion institutions turned to dust.<br>When a half-hidden rail on a sidewalk becomes a doorway to paradise we arrive in a casino where red and black are indistinguishable and the house is perhaps God. Here boredom is a system to be defeated luck is a lab protocol and morality is unpriced.<br>Behind the curtain: doctors brain microchips and research on boredom devoted to eliminating boredom by redesigning the human brain. Microchips replace meditation; algorithms dictate the state of the human mind. <br>The narrator's shifting roles - scientist writer patient observer... become a satire on our obsession with perfection and our terror of stillness.<br>Part satirical space-time romp part philosophical whodunit part anti-novel this short read blends witty dialogue with long lucid reflections on science art and the stupidity of power. It asks why we grant certain people the switch to our lives - and whether any change avoids the same old result.<br>If you like absurdist sci-fi metafictional pranks and laugh-to-keep-from-crying politics you'll devour this.</p>