Its only a matter of time before we are too lazy to care, and that's when things will happen. In the midst of the media crackdown, is Channel Zero's protagonist Jenni 2.5, an ex-performance artist made obsolete by the media legislation. The other characters in the book are smaller players, from a virus-paranoid black market software dealer, to friends of Jennie 2.5, who help her along the way, with passwords and bits of information. In Channel Zero , Wood uses captions like subliminal messages which float outside the narrative flow of the story. It has the effect of heightening the readers senses - readers find themselves loooking for clues, trying to find the meaning of the small print.
People really respond to it.
One reader wrote and told me they thought one of my full-page fake ads was real at first. Another person commented that my book felt similar to a techno track, with messages and phrases cut into the story at certain places. I thought that was a great comparison. All the shops in Manhattan were out of them within a day or two. He has heard reports from American and abroad that the book is selling well.