Some men sleep through the future. Daniel woke up in it.
That’s the hook in award-winning writer-director James Morcan’s new release romantic comedy novel Analogue Man.
This is James’s second solo-authored book. It follows the release of his mystery-drama novel Anno 2020, which he adapted to a feature film screenplay of the same name – the greenlit movie version of which he subsequently directed and which is now screening on international streaming platforms. Analogue Man is following the same trajectory with a screenplay adaptation already in the works.
In 1989, nineteen-year-old truck driver Daniel is somewhere in the Australian Outback when a kangaroo bounds onto the highway. Thirty-seven years later, he wakes in a Sydney hospital to discover his parents are dead and the world he knew has gone.
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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Analogue Man is available via Amazon as Kindle ebook, and audiobook. (Listening time: 3hrs. 46mins.). https://www.amazon.com/Analogue-Man-James-Morcan-ebook/dp/B0HR387JCD/
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