Some men sleep through the future. Daniel woke up in it.
In 1989, nineteen-year-old truck driver Daniel is listening to State of Origin on the radio, somewhere in the Australian Outback, when a kangaroo bounds onto the highway. Thirty-seven years later, he wakes in a Sydney hospital to find that his parents are gone, the world has been replaced, and a boy in the corridor is chatting to a woman who lives inside a glass slab.
Daniel has a lot of catching up to do. He is attacked by a tap, set alight by a hand dryer, accused by a computer of being a robot, and mistakes a drone for a Soviet spy craft. He acquires a heavy-metal grandson he never knew he had, and he falls hopelessly in love with the one woman who is strictly forbidden to date him: his gentle, brilliant, phone-in-hand psychologist, Miriam.
When Daniel finally gives up trying to fit in, he does something nobody has done in decades. He opts out. Armed with a Walkman, a Polaroid, a pager that hasn’t beeped since 1989 and a cheque book, he goes Old School and tech-free and reinvents himself as the almost superhuman Analogue Man: a hero free from every weakness of a tech-obsessed age. But Miriam is engaged to a suave tech founder who arrives by helicopter, and Daniel soon discovers that saving the world is easier than winning one woman.
A warm, laugh-out-loud satire of life in the screen age, Analogue Man is a comedy about love, loss, friendship, second chances and what we miss when everybody is looking down.
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James Morcan is an award-winning writer-director and actor working in the film and book publishing industries. New Zealand-born, he resides in Sydney as a dual citizen of Australia and New Zealand.
Analogue Man was James’s second solo-authored novel. He normally writes in collaboration with his New Zealand-based father Lance, and together they’ve co-authored more than 35 books (fiction and nonfiction) under their indie publishing banner Sterling Gate Books.
Combined, the Morcans have written several Amazon bestsellers including their international thriller series The Orphan Trilogy, the historical adventure novels Into the Americas and White Spirit, as well as the nonfiction titles The Catcher in the Rye Enigma, Underground Bases and Genius Intelligence. Their books have been translated into 11 languages and are available in eBook, paperback, hardback and audiobook formats.
James has over 20 years’ experience as an actor, film director, screenwriter and producer, working on numerous feature films, international TV shows, short films and documentaries, as well as theatre. He recently directed his first feature film. Titled Anno 2020, it was adapted from his novel of the same name; it was his first solo-authored novel. The movie was released in cinemas around Australia, won film festival awards, and is now streaming worldwide.
Analogue Man is likely to follow the same trajectory; a feature film screenplay adaptation is already being written.
Morcan Books and Films blog: https://morcanbooksandfilms.com/
X link: @MorcanJames
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