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This is a wonderful book. So is "God's Dawn For Every Darkness" by the same author. Ed Miller has an incredible way of sharing his knowledge of the scriptures, but more importantly, his knowledge of the person and nature of Jesus Christ through a very personal perspective...a convenant relationship that shines through every line. I love this work. It points the way to the love of my life!

This is a wonderful book. So is "God's Dawn For Every Darkness" by the same author. Ed Miller has an incredible way of sharing his knowledge of the scriptures, but more importantly, his knowledge of the person and nature of Jesus Christ through a very personal perspective...a convenant relationship that shines through every line. I love this work. It points the way to the love of my life!

This is a wonderful book. So is "God's Dawn For Every Darkness" by the same author. Ed Miller has an incredible way of sharing his knowledge of the scriptures, but more importantly, his knowledge of the person and nature of Jesus Christ through a very personal perspective...a convenant relationship that shines through every line. I love this work. It points the way to the love of my life!

You will discover God personally and be refreshed as you are ushered into a deeper understanding and knowledge of your Creator and Sustainer. Author Ed Miller, writes with a warm, and deeply personal style that will cause you to thirst for a more intimate relationship with our Lord. He will become your friend and mentor through his 70 individual "letters" for vision, life, and rest. Ed's writings have blessed me and have given me an insatiable desire for God's word - they will do the same for you! Get ready to be blessed, refreshed, and discover the abundant life through our Lord Jesus Christ.

This book is so wonderful!! It contains condensed easy to read answers to the most prevalent questions believers may ponder. One can feel the presense of God as Ed shares his counsel on the whole word of God. He apty shares Gods heart and love for his children as he encourages us to Rest, Abide and Love our Creator. The Best!!

I'd like to add my two cents to this discussion. No one has mentioned the grad school stuff that brought back such memories for me. I agree with Amy about the merits of Wallace Stevens and was surprised that she came to embrace his poetry at the end. I also agree that English scholars leech off of the creative work of great writers. Amy is right to prefer creating art of her own. I'd like to think that's what she does as she goes on with her photography. But I grudgingly admire Matthew's willingness to play the academic game for career purposes. Grad school was such a disillusionment for this old student who went there to relish the joys of literature and ended up fleeing. Miller accurately captures the realities of grad school studies. I put his novel right up there with "Love Story" and "The Paper Chase."

Two people link up to escape, sex turns to love, love turns to freedom. The author presents the process brilliantly, using sex as a metaphor for relationship and how it changes, binds and liberates. Yeah, the scenes are great in the book, but they stand for so much more. That's the way it was back then. However you were doing it, it projected who you were. "Life Boiling Over" not only shows it like it was; it tells us what it meant.

"Life Boiling Over" is a fine book. It took me back. I especially like the Woodstock chapter. Either the author was there, or he did his research. It's true the Grateful Dead was having trouble with the sound system and that acid called "Orange Sunshine" was being passed around. But what got me the most was how people just slipped into the counter-culture like it was a fad and had their lives permanently changed. I know those years changed my life but I don't know if it was for the better or not. A mixture of good and bad probably. That seems to be one of the points Jon Michael Miller makes brilliantly in this book.

I just read these other reviews, and what they all miss is that this novel is a love story, first and foremost. Certainly Miller writes about sex, hippies, and Viet Nam, but what is best about the book is how carefully the author traces each small change in the progress of Amy and Matt's relationship. It shows incredible perception about the psychology of love. It reminds me of Tolstoy's delineation of the affair between Anna Karenina and Count Vronsky. Sure, this author is no Tolstoy, but his insight into the subtleties of love's many changes is as good as it gets.

Lots of Viet Nam books have been written but this one presents a type of war veteran that rarely appears-the most common one, the one who came home messed up, yes, but who tried to carry on with his life the best he could. He didn't protest. He didn't go crazy. He didn't become a drug addict or a permanent resident of a VA hospital. I like the way Matthew Boyer, Miller's male protagonist, redeems what he sees to be his sins in Viet Nam and how he grows from an embittered man into one who finds and embraces true love by following what is deepest in his heart. This is the best Viet Nam novel I have read, and I've read a few.

32 years ago I designed my first underwater habitat - I wish this book had been around. It is somewhat technical, but easily read and understood by anyone who knows the underwater environment. It gives insight as to what can be done if we decide to become aquanauts. It provides a wealth of data to those who desire to continue to design these types of structures. It should a must ready for any designer or engineer who desires this line of inquiry.

I have just earnt my Aquanaut fins by building an underwater habitat and spending 12 days underwater. I read this book cover to cover several times on the advice of fellow explorer and Aquanaut Dennis Chamberland. That was some good advice! Dennis's new book, Undersea Colonies, and Living and Working in the Sea are two must reads for anyone considering becomming an Aquanaut. There are a lot of things to consider, so if you value your safety and the safety of those around you get yourself a copy!

If you have ever dreamed of inhabiting the sea like I have, then the book, 'Living and Working in the Sea' is for you. The authors have provided a concise and comprehensive account of man's attempt to penetrate the ocean, their attempt to remain there indefinitely through the use of saturation diving techniques and provide the reader with the highlights of the many saturation programs, which have utilized seafloor habitats throughout the world. This book is recommended for all those individuals who have participated as aquanauts in a saturation diving program or who are intending to become an aquanaut in the near future. I still use this book today as a reference tool for the day-to-day aspects of supporting an undersea research laboratory and it is required reading for all our saturation diving staff technicians.

Authored by two of the most experienced and learned contributors to the science of underwater habitation, this book is an absolute must read for anyone interested in saturation diving and undersea living. It chronicles the history and the construction of all the sea floor habitats ever used. If you want to build one, read it.

Although divers first viewed the undersea world over 5000 years ago, it is less than 40 years since man first lived on the seafloor. Since 1962, over 65 seafloor habitats have been developed in 17 nations around the world. An amazing variety of enclosures were used including inflated baloons, cement mixers and elaborate homes.

The successes and failures of these ingenious attempts to colonize the seafloor and the technology that made it all possible is the subject of this fascinating book. Both authors are experienced aquanauts having lived on the seafloor for over a month. The book reflects their first-hand experience as well as their personal knowledge of many colonization efforts throughout the world.

This book is the only source available that tells the story of seafloor habitation from the very first spartan steel chamber, to the world's first underwater lodge, an underwater classroom that has served thousands of young students, and gives you a look at the possibility of future undersea resorts, theme parks, villages and cities.

This book is perhaps the most elaborate statement of general living systems theory yet to be written. Not recommended for those not well versed in both systems terminology and biological concepts. However, if you are adept in these areas, you will be rewarded with incredible insights.

Despite this is a book with an enormous and difficult text, since the very first chapter it enlightens the most basic message: that sciences, and knowledge, can be integrated, in a sort of unified theory, the "general theory of living systems", as the author puts it. And it does; since I began to understand the hole thing, it really makes me easier to think, and to view the world, like somekind of natural phylosophy, or organic phylosophy. It's really helpfull. (My email is galfroid@hotmail.com)

Although reading such a long book in its entirety seems at first measure a daunting task (and one that few people's academic credentials hold up to....), readers daring enough to try are pretty well rewarded across the whole of this book. This book is an introduction to systems theory (i.e. that the result of a conglomeration of small scale processes can be seen to accumulate into larger, predictable processes at macro levels, similar to how a person who makes individual knots can end up with a rug...) that straddles the mark from physics to political economy (which is running far indeed!!!)

This is a really big book besides having a lot of pages, and I have a hunch that not too many people are going to buy it outside of researchers or university librarians. But, I suppose, if you're either of these (though if one were going to research they'd probably look to a sucession of smaller books, no?) I'd buy this book.... your collection would be enriched through having it....

This is the Bible on the living systems we see around us in today's world. Years ago, a reviewer described Miller's theory as "fundamental yet capable of elaboration in great detail." No one has explained it better.

Here Miller lays out 19 processes which every living system needs to perform in order to compete and survive; eight processes for information, nine processes for matter and energy, and two processes for both. Miller also sees that there are billions and billions of different kinds of living systems in the world from microscopic cells to international organizations. So, he has categorized them into seven levels from the simplest and tiniest to the most complex and largest. And, he frequently makes interesting comparisons across these different levels.

Miller weaves volumes of information about the life sciences into his theory, particularly the biology of evolution. The concept of "emergence" appears to be its bedrock. New characteristics emerge as living systems become more complex, miraculously it would seem. In that sense, the book appears to be a detailed proof of Aristotle's famous conclusion that "the whole is more than the sum of its parts."

Many readers of this book have described it as a reference book, which it is. But, that description sells the book too short. Miller's prose is graceful and readable. I would say this book is enjoyable and well worth reading even if you have only enough time to read one chapter.

Two interesting companions to Living Systems would be Kevin Kelly's Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and Economic Order and also Ruppert Sheldrake's Morphic Resonance: The Habits of Nature. It might be said that Living Systems is a sequel to Alfred North Whitehead's famous book Process and Reality.

Don't let the size of this book stop you from exploring it. The author has designed the book so it (slowly) reveals itself, working from basic concepts of how dynamic systems work through levels of biological and social complexity. It is a brilliant work, a must for anyone involved in any sort of analytical work. It is one of the most important books of the 20th century and, if attention is paid, will be an important guidebook to the 21st.

To see more of Miller's work and its implications, see the web site Principia Cybernetica.

We need to build more than just a mere 100-200 fighters.

Jay Miller tends to do good work, but the books are seldom balanced - always coming off a bit like a cheerleader for whatever subject he is writing about. A case in point is the F/A-22 book. The airplane is undoubtedly pushing the state of the art, but it has had a constant string of troubles that are not addressed in this book. Then the entire policy issue of why the USAF needs this airplane, or how 100 F-22s are going to replace 1,000 F-15s and F-16s. Still, if you are interested in the F-22, this is a good place to start.

By any standards the F/A-22 Raptor is the world's most advanced fighter. At at least $200 million each, it is certainly the most expensive. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, is it needed?

The plane that eventually became the F/A-22 began as a planned replacement for the F-15 and F-16 as they were reaching the end of their useful lives. The thinking about the plane began as early as 1969. Now in 2005 they are being delivered to the Air Force.

This is a beautiful book that starts with the early thinking, goes through the competition, initial testing, early production troubles, engine development, everything and in great detail. There's a bit about the competing F-23 fighter, which also looks like it would have been a pretty good bird.

There are some artist's concepts of a proposed F/B-22 bomber version and a comment that Northrop was dusting off their F-23 design to make it a bomber. A bomber like this might finally enable the Air Force to have a self-defending bomber like they thought they had with the B-17.

Do we need the F/A-22? -- I think that yes, we probably do. The United States professes to be a peaceful nation, but we go to war a lot. And if we do, I'd want our warfighters to have the best possible equipment. For at least the next twenty years, that's the F/A-22.

The story so far of the F-22A. The develloping story from the early days till present times is remarkable and really made me read page after page. The cherry on top of the cake are the photos - they are almost all full color. Previous titles were mostly black and white with a small center color section, this one is totally color except some archive pics of develloping mock ups that are b&w. But these are a minority. Jay Miller made an excellent job tracing the story of this awesome aircraft. Modern jet fans will love for sure. Highly recommended

I am a hugh Raptor supporter. Personally, I feel we need this fighter. This book is a detailed analysis of this great fighter.

When I received my copy, I read it all the way through. The book is written in great detail by Miller. There is a lot of color and b&w photos taken by Miller himself and through Lockheed Martin archives, many never before released. The pics are crystal clear and many of later Raptors based at Nellis and Tyndall AFB. Text is full of details that can be released and each photo have captions for it.

In addition to sections about the YF-23 the proposed naval F-22, adn the FB-22, the book also includes part of the original Aerofax YF-22 text that Miller wrote with Richard Abrams back in the early 1990's to refreash the history of the Raptor back in the ATF (Advanced Tactical Fighter) competition days. I also have the older YF-22 Aerofax book and the good news here is there is new photos and captions of the YF-22 prototype included in this new book.

My only wish is that this edition included the DIOT&E (Dedicated Initial Operational Test & Evaluation) results and photos of the Raptors based at Langley AFB, VA that were starting to be delivered in June 2005 Both events started after this book was printed . It would have been great to include some of the results and pilot and maintainer perspectives from the results of these tests (it is reported that the F/A-22 Raptor kicked everyone's A$$ that dared go up against it). Perhaps Miller or another great aviation author Bill Sweetman will include this section and photos in their next Raptor book. Regardless, a great book and highly recommended to add to your aviation library.

An outstanding book covering the founding and development of one of the great ski and resort areas in the country. .

The photographs alone are worthy of buying this book. There are plenty of rare b&w shots of mammoth from the turn of the 20th century on up and prime photos of the Mccoy legend. One of my favorite shots is Dave's Harley with skis strapped to it--circa late '30's! In addition, the text is nicely written giving you a sense of the key players in the development of mammoth as a ski town, mammoth in the world of ski racing, and nice vignettes on some unique things to the eastern sierra--from Schat's Bakkery to big horn sheep.

This book is awesome! The pictures are excelent and the information is great. Nice to know what Mammoth used to look like before it became the famous place that it is today.

Anyone who likes skiing will love this book. Forstenzer's familiarity with the Sierra makes it one that won't just sit around on the coffee table. He writes engagingly and tells great stories about the early days of skiing in Mammoth and its culture, how the ski area was built and some of the people involved. The photographs are astonishing and well worth the price alone, but in combination with the writing Forstenzer lets us glimpse what made Mammoth Mountain the great ski resort it has become. This is a terrific book about past and present skiing days at Mammoth. Like most any ski item associated with Warren Miller - breathtaking!

Absolutely the most beautiful collection of photos of Mammoth and the surrounding area can be found in this book! It provides a wonderful history and insight into the creation and life of this skiing Mecca. This is a must have for any Mammoth lover!

Miller and Le Breton-Miller present a well-researched and well-written study focused on 4 themes in family-run firms: command, continuity, community, and connection. These themes translate into management principles that can and should be used by public companies and other organizations as well. Their (sometimes counter-intuitive) findings show companies such as Cargill, L.L. Bean, The New York Times, IKEA and others manage to survive and thrive. An insightful and interesting book.

This is a great book! It is well grounded in excellent case study research and good theory. The authors bring to life some important and profound wisdom about the sources of advantage that family firms have and what makes them successful. Well written, the book is easily accessible to scholars, public policy makers and the public at large. I am impressed by the depth of the research in the book and the time frame it covers. The diversity of companies examined in the book helps to illustrate how effective management can make a significant difference in the ways family firms surpass their rivals in their performance. This is a "must read" book!


Shaker A. Zahra
Paul T. Babson Chair of Entrepreneurship

In several recent reviews, I have quoted remarks by Jack Welch when explaining why he admires small businesses: "For one, they communicate better. Without the din and prattle of bureaucracy, people listen as well as talk; and since there are fewer of them they generally know and understand each other. Second, small companies move faster. They know the penalties for hesitation in the marketplace. Third, in small companies, with fewer layers and less camouflage, the leaders show up very clearly on the screen. Their performance and its impact are clear to everyone. And, finally, smaller companies waste less. They spend less time in endless reviews and approvals and politics and paper drills. They have fewer people; therefore they can only do the important things. Their people are free to direct their energy and attention toward the marketplace rather than fighting bureaucracy."

In his E-Myth Mastery, Michael Gerber cites the following statistics: "Of the 1 million U.S. small businesses started this year [2005], more than 80% of them will be out of business within 5 years and 96% will have closed their doors before their 10th birthday." Everything Welch says is true in terms of the potential advantages which small businesses have and the statistics which Gerber cites suggests that very few of them know how to achieve and then sustain those advantages.

I include these quotations now because they are directly relevant to what Miller and Le Breton-Miller offer in their own book, Managing for the Long Run. For owners and other decision-makers now involved with family businesses, they explain HOW to achieve and then sustain a competitive advantage. True, various "lessons" were revealed by the authors' rigorous and extensive research on a number of family-controlled businesses (FCB) which have become major corporations, notably Cargill, Hallmark Cards, L.L. Bean, Motorola, and Wal-Mart.

It is important to remember, however, that all of them had modest origins and during that perilous period encountered most (if not all) of the same challenges which FCB start-ups now face. Most of the most valuable business books were written to answer critically important questions. In this instance: What distinguishes great family businesses? (Please see Chapter 1.) A related question: What are the "potent priorities" of great family-controlled businesses? (Please see Chapter 2.) Another related question: Why do so many family-controlled businesses stumble? (Please see Chapter 8.) In between Chapters 2 and 8, Miller and Le Breton-Miller focus on five primary characteristics: brand building, craftsmanship, operations, innovation, and deal making. They devote a separate chapter to each. I prefer not to list their key points which are best revealed within the narrative's frame-of-reference and sequential context. However, I now express my appreciation of various Tables and Grids which so efficiently illustrate the cohesion, indeed interdependence of what the authors characterize as "The Four Cs": Command, Continuity, Community, and Connections.

All of the specific mental and business models, strategies, tactics, values, and applications which Miller and Le Breton-Miller recommend are based on their conviction that "the only way to sustain good performance is to [begin italics] act in the best interests of the company and all its stakeholders. [end italics] First, boards and top managers must be motivated to be courageous and farsighted stewards. Second, they need to concentrate on and invest deeply in a substantive, enduring mission. Third, they must assemble a unified, value-driven staff that uses its initiative for the interests of the whole firm. Finally, they must form enduring, win-win relationships with external partners."

Those who share my high regard for this book are urged to check out Gerber's most recent E-Myth book. Also Gary Harpst's Six Disciplines for Excellence, Steven S. Little's The 7 Irrefutable Rules of Small Business Success, and Jason Jennings' Think Big, Act Small.

Modernisation theorists and chandlerian followers have developed plausible arguments that there are too many weaknesses in family-controlled businesses such as nepotism, small-scale, and short-lived.

Danny Miller & Isabella Le-Breton Miller capture mounting primary and secondary data from 58 family-controlled companies in the US and suggest that family-controlled companies can be as marvellous as their nonfamily-controlled peers. This book provides a rich source of useful insights to business excutives in having a novel understanding family-controlled companies.

According to the International Family Enterprise Research Academy, family-controlled companies dominate every aspect of economic life in the world but the study of family-controlled companies has received scant attention in proportion to the significance of their contribution to the economic growth in the US. This book is a classic in family business research and I highly recommend it to all business executives and researchers.

This book is amazing. I know of no other book in the management literature as cogent, as provocative or as compelling as this one. No wonder family businesses outperform their publicly-held counterparts. This book challenges not only our prejudices about family businesses, but also they way we manage our own. It shows clearly why these companies have succeeded and grown over decades to become the powerhouses they are now - their competitive advantages are sustainable.

The book defies what we think of as best management practices for public companies. It reminds me of Collins's "Built to Last" and Level 5 leaders. The underlying research is THAT good.

For me, the centerpiece of it all is an elegant matrix that describes how these companies have been able to deliver on 5 core strategies through the advantages long tenure, patient capital, etc. No quick accounting fixes here. Locate your own company within this matrix and the companies they studied will offer new guidance as you make your biggest bets and make your toughest decisions.

I was dumbfounded at how short-sighted and small-minded I had become as a manager. It's not a quick read, but read it. And you will never think in quite the same way about your strategy, your core competencies, your markets, or the way you leverage/steward your current resources.

This book is both sophisticated and practical. My hat is off to Miller and Breton-Miller.

I absolutely Loved the book. Mandy Miller wants to join the Unicorn Club, but the Unicorns do not want Mandy. But Jessica is friends with her and likes her. When they get into a fight, Mandy notices a lump under her arm that bothers her, and she finds out that she has cancer. Jessica feels totally responsible for Mandy's cancer and is afraid that Mandy will die.When the Unicorns find out about Mandy having cancer, the are sorry that they didn't let her into the club. So finally, Mandy is a member. THIS IS A WONDERFUL, WONDERFUL,W-O-N-D-E-R-F-U-L BOOK!

THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS I HAVE EVER READ IN MY LIFE! IT WAS FULL OF SUSPENSE AND KEEP ME INTERESTED FROM BEGING TO END.I NEVER PUT IT DOWN UNTIL I WAS DONE .......WHICH TOOK ME ABOUT AN HOUR! IT WAS VERY GOOD AND REALISTIC.I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS BOOK FOR ALL AGES!

Mandy Miller wants to join the Unicorns,but the Unicorns don't want Mandy Miller,She wears thrift store clothes,and is funny.Jessica likes her.One day,Mandy gets hurt.Jessica blames herself for Mandy getting Cancer and Mandy Becomes a Unicorn,and in the Unicorn Club series ,The President.

I will be interested to read what others say about Jamie Suzannes interperation of a character suffering cancer.But first,my review!Jessica is abit embarrassed by her adoring hanger-on,Mandy-a flower child.But she cannot help liking her anyway.She starts to like Mandy more than her own snooty-boots friends who tell her Mandy can not be one of them.How will they react though when Mandy goes through a bout of cancer?The news turns Jessicas world upside down,and all her attitudes begin to change,especially toward her petty friends.

Mandy Miller wants to join the Unicorns, but the Unicorns don't want Mandy! She wears wild thrift shop outfits, and she has a good sense of humor.

But Jessica Wakefield likes Mandy. And then they get paired up on a project on the 1920s for the 1920s festival. They're really excited, and they plan a vaudeville act. Mandy pressures Jessica to tell her if she's going to be accepted into the Unicorn club. And the members of the Unicorn club are waiting for Jessica to tell Mandy that she's not Unicorn material. When Jessica tells Mandy, they get into a huge fight. But then, Mandy gets sick...and she might die. Jessica hears that Mandy has cancer...and it's true! Mandy cant come to school to do the act, so Elizabeth, Jessica's twin substitutes. The act wins first place, and Jessica and Elizabeth perform it in Hollywood! Meanwhile, all Mandy's beautiful hair falls out, and her mother buys her a little orphan Annie wig. It's truly horrible, but it's the only thing they can afford. The Unicorns feel sorry for Mandy and chip in money to buy Mandy a better wig. Mandy loves the new wig. Then Janet Howell the president of the Unicorns asks Mandy to join the Unicorns, and Mandy accepts the invitation.

My favorite part in this book was when Jessica and Mandy perform their vaudeville act to the class, before Mandy gets sick.

This was a great book, and I highly recommend it.

Miller the Green Caterpillar is a beautiful children's book -- beautiful artwork and beautiful story. Parents everywhere will be using this tale of metamorphis to explain the process of growing up.

Congratulations, Miller! You are a butterfly at last.

I am in love. I met Darrell House, this book and Darrell's CDs (soon to be on Amazon) up close and personal (over lunch! Ahem!) and between this author and the Green Guy, I think we have a star on our hands. Darrell House should be invited to every library in the land. There should be a Green Caterpillar book in every house in the land and at least one of Darrell's songs in every child's (and every adult's) heart.
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Reviewed by Carolyn Howard-Johnson, award-winning author of THIS IS THE PLACE, HARKENING, THE FRUGAL BOOK PROMOTER and a new chapbook of poetry, TRACINGS.

Hello, I am writing this review in hopes to spark some intrest in one of the best books of its time. Miller the Green Caterpillar uses several items that can be included in daily teaching lessons. From poetry to morals this book has it all. I give two thumbs up for new author Darrell House and the amazing work of Patti Argoff. I can only hope that they team up to create another amazing story.

a perfect 10 i liked the book so much i bought a copy for just about everyone i know that has kids...or will eventually have kids.

I have just recieved my copy of the book Miller the Green Caterpillar and I am happy to say that I am as thrilled with it as my children (ages 5 and 7). The only thing I've heard out of either of them this whole week is "Mommy read it again!" and i did, and this is the first book that they have fallen in love with that I cant get enough of either. I encourage all parents and teachers to have a copy of this great book to help teach their kids and students about setting goals for themselves and not giving up till their dreams come true. A+ work by author Darrell House and illustrator Patti Argoff.

I read Mosca in two sittings with Leonard Cohen's The Future playing in the background. Misanthropy magnified.

It's about, like all of Miller's books in one way or another, facing up to the inevitability of our eventual self destruction... maybe I should say apparant inevitability for although there is a fatalistic feeling there is also an undercurrent of potential salvation. Even if it doesn't always go that way there's a feeling that maybe if something was done a little earlier... But anyway fantastically written, It reads to me like human thought on paper... but able to be followed (this is no finnegan's wake) excellent employment of zeugma.

Let me say first that I am a friend of Richard Miller's, and a big fan. I have read all his work, and my favorite is Bohemia, his 1977 look at the history of youth cultures and movements, a topic that today is real hot. Mosca is his latest novel in which he sets up a situation too wild to be believed, sets it in the world as we know it, and then asks you, is it so wild after all? Mosca is an artificially intelligent psuedo fly creation, who escapes from his/her birthplace, a CIA lab in Virginia, and makes hir way to California. Hir goal - to kill all humans, so the animals may live. Starting with the white males. Taken by a crow messenger to New Mexico, S/he meets Artemis/Diana/ Santa Sebastiana, cursed to live in a wooden statue paraded out once a year by penitantes who reenact the crusifiction of Christ. And so the story begins. Weaving fact and fiction, Miller's great strength, his wild imagination, tells a story hard to believe, and easy to imagine as true. At least some parts of it. And his characters speak out about the unspeakable, the injustices we see all around us and do nothing about, and the beauty and life in small moments we fail to acknowledge. Miller points his magnifying glass and focuses our attention, letting us see the world the way he does, just a little. And what a world it is. I've sat at Parisian cafes tossing money on the ground with Miller just to see the looks on peoples faces when they bend down to pick it up. Can a man who suggests you befriend a stranger in a bar and ask if you can buy them a subcription to a subversive newspaper(Anderson Valley Advertiser) be far from truths you might be interested in? Put this title in your electric shopping cart today and you won't be sorry. And look for other books by Miller. Then pass them on to friends. Noel Olken, filmmaker, Chicago IL

William Burroughs said of Miller's "Snail": "Snail is at once delirious & serious... it addresses itself to basic themes of immortality, death, reincarnation & the future of the species." Mosca is no less than a novel addressing itself, often quite humorously, to the end of the human species. Coming to us in New Mexico just in time for the cuartocentenario, a significant part of the novel concerns New Mexico, Onate, the penitentes, moradas and a rakish Santa Sebastiana interacting with Mosca -- a CIA concocted, biogenetically engineered cyber fly. Along with the secret government, Mosca spends time in New Mexico and San Francisco's North Beach preparing to end the human race. As Miller says, the writing is "factual fiction" and is as multi-dimensional as it gets. Mosca gives new meaning to the term "trip" and Miller's intellect and wit are sharper than ever. Carl Hertel for ABQ Arts.

Let me start by saying I love MOSCA, Richard Miller's latest novel. I've read all his books. When he sent me MOSCA, his tale about a CIA-created, artificial fly who escapes from a creepy lab into the equally corrupt "free world," I read it and entered the Milleresque mindscape. It's remarkable how Miller melds together, collages, footnotes and embroiders the frightening, overwhelming facts most people repress to carry on with "life." MOSCA seems like wild delerium but at its heart it's a witty/serious look at unedited reality. That's why it seems surreal! It's funny, horrifying, devastating and so alive. There's nothing like it anywhere. Get it if you can.

William Burroughs said of Miller's "Snail": "Snail is at once delirious & serious...it addresses itself to basic themes of immortality, death, reincarnation & and the future of the species. Mosca is no less than a novel addressing itself, often quite humorously,to the end of the human species. Coming to us in New Mexico just time for the cuartocentenario a significant part of the novel concerns New Mexico, Onate, the penitentes, moradas and a rakish Santa Sebastiana interacting with Mosca - a CIA concoted, biogenetically engineered cyber fly. Along with the secret government, Mosca spends time in New Mexico & San Francisco's North Beach preparing to end the human race. As Miller says, the writing is "factual fictional" and is as multi- dimensional as it gets. Mosca give new meaning to the term "trip" and Miller's intellect and wit are sharper than ever. Carl Hertel for ABQ Arts.