>Just did a search on the first book-while not exactly Sci-fi it does look kind of funny and interesting:
and I guess, according to this blurb the second book is more political and social commentary...some on Amazon wrote:Particle physics, false vacuum bubbles, an alternate universe--this is the stuff of Jonathan Lethem's novel As She Climbed Across the Table. The tale echoes Alice in Wonderland in its mad tumble through a rearranged reality. Narrator Phillip Engstrand is a university professor who has made a career out of studying academic environments. Engstrand is in love with Alice Coombs, a particle physicist engaged in a bold attempt to replicate the origins of the universe. The result of the experiment is Lack, a very selective black hole that sucks some things into its void--a cat, a pair of socks, a strawberry--and rejects others, namely, a love-struck Alice. As Alice's unrequited obsession with Lack grows, Phillip becomes so desperate to save his beloved from this empty rival that he risks a journey down the metaphysical rabbit hole.
The future isn’t what it used to be and the past won’t leave us alone...
Bringing to mind 1984 and Brave New World, but with his own twist of quirky humor, award-winning author Sean Murphy presents a vision of America gone off the rails: an America where it literally rains cats and dogs, where time and gravity storms can spring up at a moment’s notice, and where the American government has been acquired in a corporate buyout (and now renamed The America Corporation).
Into this world is born Buddy LeBlanc, a young man with a special gift: the ability to perform tiny miracles. Nothing big, like raising the dead or curing the sick – more like an uncanny knack for finding spare change. He longs to find a way to make a difference, and when he casts his lot in with a particularly gorgeous journalist on a magical journey for justice, the fate of the country might just end up in his not-so-capable hands.…
