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Fog, hardly; confounded though his characters might be, Marcus (Leaving the Sea) delivers slightly tilted, sometimes futurist worlds in beautifully, icily precise language. Often his characters are crushed by corporate excess, as when moody, slightly misanthropic Carl is disfigured after serving as the guinea pig for his company's new nutritional supplement or employees clumping together at mournful gatherings realize that "an obituary had just ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More