Welcome to Cyburbia

Confidential dossier.

Your eyes only.

Title: The Wild Palms Reader

Subject: Book Tie-In for 6-hour ABC Event Series

Setting: Los Angeles, 2007

For: Channel Surfers, Cyberpunks and China Beach fans

By: Oliver Stone/Bruce Wagner/ABC-TV

Via: St. Martin’s Press/A Thomas Dunne Book

Source: $14.95, paperback

Form: 128 pages, four-color.

SALIENT INFORMATION:

Publication is companion reader to the ABC-TV event series “Wild Palms,” which premieres today. (Four installments run concurrently through Wednesday.) Publication is a scrapbook montage documenting the rise of villainous presidential candidate Tony Kreutzer. Publication provides history and theories behind Virtual Reality technology developed for mass mind control through Kreutzer’s “Wild Palms” TV network. Organized chronologically from 1945 through 2008, publication illuminates world of “Wild Palms.” Welcome to “cyburbia.”

PHYSICAL MANIFEST

Publication is a multilayered collage where words and images battle for attention. Publication is compilation of script excerpts, journal entries, letters, metaphysical writings, comic strips, techno-ads, CIA dossiers and poems. Lush graphics sometimes subvert eccentric text. Warning: Publication is initially difficult to penetrate, but with continued attention is addictive.

USER ACCESS

Publication is not meant to be approached linearly. Jump in anywhere. Each piece illuminates and feeds off the other. “This is not a book about the world of “Wild Palms,” it is a book from that world. It doesn’t know it’s fiction.” Leave it next to your remote control long enough and you won’t either.