THE EROTIC FUTURE?

Romance is often defined as a feeling of excitement and mystery associated with love, accompanied by a feeling of remoteness from everyday ho-hum life. Love on the other hand can be defined as an intense feeling of deep affection, generating interest and pleasure, often involving erotic sexual attachment. By these definitions, THE EDGE OF MADNESS is in every way a romance, erotic love story. Set in the future, it affords the reader a convenient way to experience, enjoy and reflect on romance, love and eroticism as they might exist in the future, and as exists in present society through the “mirror of the future.” Are love, romance and eroticism subject to time and cultural change? I think, yes, and this is why, collectively, I like to call THE EDGE OF MADNESS a relationship rather than a love, romance and/or erotic novel per se, though strong elements of each appear in plenty.

Taking up where TOTAL MELTDOWN (Borgo/Wildside 2009) by Raymond Gaynor and William Maltese left off, NewAmerica, a shadow of its former United States of America, provides a challenging and dangerous future place for three young firebrands to live.

By far the most profound and dangerous challenges are those surrounding relationships aka romance, love, eroticism and sex. And explore, they do, sometimes even holographically, begging the question of what, if anything, now or in the plausible future is “real.” Put on your CandyShades, breathe in a little ContraSpray, open a copy of THE EDGE OF MADNESS and settle back for a titillating T-rip like never before.

The Edge of Madness