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The Academy of Reality
by Steve Putnam
ISBN: 978-1-956440-99-7 paperback $22.95
ISBN: 978-1-963695-00-7 ebook $9.99
October 15, 2024
A quest for institutional survival, two subversive corporate employees, Sid Sidney a technician and Mia Monroe a would-be shadow artist, get caught up in the undertow of office-speak and bastardized metrics tracking printer glitches, insurance profits, lab’s birdseed expenses, and pigeons’ ping pong scores. HR makes things worse, tasking Sid and Mia to co-author an employee benefits booklet, Fifty Places to Picnic.
Mia’s bio clock and Sid’s world population clock blip in-the-moment numbers on tablets, a battle of Darwinian proportions. Although humans and pigeons already overpopulate the Institute, Mia wants a baby.
Praise from readers of Steve Putnam’s The Academy of Reality:
Immediately distinctive writing, with a deadpan, linguistically inventive voice that has a dark view of the world.… it’s brilliant and should be praised as unlike anything that’s gone before.
—Roger King, author of Horizontal Hotel, A Girl from Zanaibar, and Love and Fatigue in America
Steve Putnam living the dream: Farm kid, Navy E3, small-town GM mechanic, framing carpenter, and an onsite printer tech at a large corporate account. When the printers were all working, he hid out in a chain link cage, his basement shop, and wrote the first draft of The Academy of Reality. No one at Corporate knew they were funding a novel about the strange ways of big business. For outstanding customer service, Putnam won “Tech of the Year” and a trip to Arizona. (As a novel-in-progress, a version of this novel was shortlisted in the Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Society Competition in New Orleans.)
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