SKYSCRAPER HEAVENS

The title of the book is
Skyscraper Heavens. It came to mind in the dark before daylight last week.

My buddy, author Kirby Wright, encouraged me to start publishing excerpts of the title with magazines so I am submitting this out on twitter with an excerpt or two.

Skyscraper Heavens rather than Skyscraper Heaven or Hi-Rise Heaven because one, I like the sound and it has more contacts with the connotations I want to elicit in the work of historical and speculative fiction that follows it.

Skyscraper is a male-dominant image, phallus, corporate, higher than you, conception of engineers, developers and heads of law firms, banks and insurance companies, to name a few. It also has a history [See “Tower of Babel”Genesis 11:4 et seq.], The World Trade Center Attack, Manhattan, New York City, New York, September 11, 2001, as well as to objectify in concrete, glass and mirrored terms the concept of professional success in the recent era(s) of our time, perhaps beginning with the Eiffel Tower, but France is not a central character of the underlying work, also known as Installment 77 on