It is Super Bowl Sunday in the year 2022. Five people, dinner, an apartment on the east side of Manhattan. The retired physics professor and her husband and her former student waiting for the couple who will join them from what becomes a dramatic flight from Paris. The conversation ranges from a survey telescope in North-central Chile to a favorite brand of bourbon to Einstein's 1912 Manuscript on the Special Theory of Relativity. Then something happens and the digital connections that have transformed our lives are severed.
The Gladney's family life is disrupted and threatened when an industrial accident sends a lethal cloud over their community; Jack Gladney struggles with the ensuing complications, which include murder.
A fictional survey of the Cold War years as seen through the eyes of protagonists Nick Shay, an executive with a waste-management firm, and his one-time lover Klara Sax, an artist.
Semi-divine entity in rock music, Bucky Wunderlick, abandons his tour to hide out in a dingy apartment in New York to contemplate his life and the frenzied culture he helped to create.
Follows a young billionaire on a limo ride through Manhattan where he meets participants in a spectrum of interesting events, such as a rap star's funeral, a presidential visit, and an anti-globalization rally.
Lauren Hartke, a lonely artist, meets a strange, ageless man who has an uncanny knowledge of her own life, and together, the two begin a journey into the wilderness of time, love, and human perception.