Novella about the future of the in-crowd: The Right People

Futurismic's Paul Raven sez,

Imagine what high school would have been like if dealing drugs had been legal when licensed, mobile social networking had been ubiquitous and the in-crowd had more leverage than most political parties… what would the smart-but-slightly-crazy outcasts end up doing?

In Adam Rakunas’s novella “The Right People”, they’re in the lucrative but precarious position of selling clandestine bootleg sex toys to the overachievers, but the rug is about to be pulled out from under their operation…

It’s simultaneously a slice of full-bore gonzo science fiction blended with a Brat Pack movie, and a timely metaphor for the present presidential tussle, and Futurismic is very proud to present “The Right People” as Adam’s first fiction sale - in fact, I think we’re lucky to have found him first!

The Right People (Thanks, Paul!)

[#1 posted by MarlboroTestMonkey7 , October 1, 2008 12:31 PM]

"...what would the smart-but-slightly-crazy outcasts end up doing?

Probably not much, as a reaction to an overly permissible society or else spirituality would blossom. It would be a bore and not very attractive novel-la material. Sorry.

[#2 posted by shanealeslie , October 1, 2008 1:35 PM]

I liked it, an interesting take on popularity vs privacy; and what we will give up in exchange for either.