Van Douglas

Dazeland Blindem Van Douglas

In history's greatest financial conspiracy, biotech mogul Dazeland Blindem plans to hijack the entire world economy on the one hundred year anniversary of of the 1929 stock market crash. With brilliant and alluring go-to gal Dagney Garison as his unwitting ally, all is going to plan. Just a few minor tweaks of the data are needed. Enter freelance scientist Moe Kaputt. Sure, trapped in the future's gig economy, Moe's main source of income is telling jokes at other people's parties and true, his latest gig is paid guinea pig in one of Dazeland's most dangerous genetic experiments. Together Moe and Dagny stumble Dazeland's plan, and back in the day Moe build a video game smart enough to defeat it. In this dark comedy of a dystopian future, greed, weird science, and unlikely romance fill the pages of Moe's diary for a fateful week in October 2029.