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	Jim Munroe \| Interviews \| SCI FI Weekly
		Munroe: Luckily, I was more than halfway through AYS before the media attention to Flyboy started up, so I was already committed and focused.
		Munroe: The idea was that it is the future as imagined in the '40s and '50s--rocket ships and boxy robots.
		Munroe: It's kind of ironic that the people who are most excited about exploring and living in diverse cultures are going there through jobs that actively homogenize the natives.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/interviews/sfw5742.html (1034 words)

	EVERYONE IN SILICO, by Jim Munroe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		When Jim Munroe self-published his latest novel in Canada he had a most unusual marketing plan.
		And in several unexpected ways, resistance is growing … things come to a head when a grandmother, searching for the 12-year-old boy in her charge who has gone over to Self, reactivates her army-issued bodysuit — transforming her into a vengeful, and nearly unstoppable, saver of souls.
		Jim Munroe, 30, was managing editor of the magazine Adbusters before writing his first novel Flyboy Action Figure Comes with Gas Mask.
	www.4w8w.com /bookmunroe2.html (367 words)

	Taddle Creek Magazine \| Steal This Logo \| Interview by Kerri Huffman
		Munroe’s book follows Sam Breen, a scrapper-turned-instructor, on an intergalactic adventure as he teaches English to a group of Octavians, a race of octopus-like aliens, on their home planet, Octavia, in 2959.
		Munroe likens this to an experience he had while in Korea when, as a special treat at a school picnic, dozen of baby octopuses were cooked alive in a pan.
		Despite Munroe’s ability to deal with political and moral issues deftly and lightly, there are moments when the reader does see dark sides of Sam—specifically in relation to his background as a “pug.” In the novel, pugs are a gang-like group that wanders the earth in search of physical violence.
	www.taddlecreekmag.com /steal_this_logo.shtml (2675 words)

	Review - Everyone in Silico by Jim Munroe
		Toronto writer Jim Munroe’s Everyone in Silico is part of this tradition, in spirit if not in execution.
		Munroe’s website, nomediakings.org, explains his stance against media consolidation and is jam-packed with advice about do-it-yourself publishing for anyone who’s interested.
		It seems to be mainly driven by Munroe’s vision of the future, and while this is an interesting vision, I’m not sure it’s enough to sustain a novel.
	www.danforthreview.com /reviews/fiction/munroe2.htm (644 words)

	Amazon.ca: Angry Young Spaceman: Books: Jim Munroe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Former managing editor of Adbusters Jim Munroe (Flyboy Action Figure Comes with Gasmask) presents Angry Young Spaceman, in which post-slacker college grad Sam ditches Earth's power-brokering to teach English on the underwater world of Octavia in 2959.
		Jim Munroe's science often falls apart (how did a liquid-covered planet ever develop metallurgy) but his science fiction, which is little more than using a set of narrative tropes to explore the human condition, is top notch.
		Munroe explores punk, intellectual property rights, the "exoticism" of the Third World and the discontents of the modern world in a clever, often funny and sometimes very tragic book.
	www.amazon.ca /Angry-Young-Spaceman-Jim-Munroe/dp/1568582080 (1459 words)

	Science Fiction Weekly Interview
		Munroe: Any movement that's large and dynamic enough to create change will also be a lucrative market.
		Munroe: No. Most editors I know are all too aware of the impact of media gluttons like Rupert Murdoch and what a creativity inhibitor the corporate environment is--I've met with much more admiration than hostility.
		Munroe: It's hard to tell at this stage, but it breaks down that I make $4 a book instead of $2 with a corporate house.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue163/interview.html (1024 words)

	Review of Jim Munroe's Everyone in Silico
		Jim Munroe's new novel, Everyone in Silico, is that entirely too rare achievement, an exciting near future story.
		Science fiction lets writers literalize the metaphors we live by, as a means of examining them, and here Munroe conveys quite clearly his point of view that aspects of the current economic system may as well be a declaration of war against the less well off.
		And kudos to Munroe for taking the anti-corporate fight beyond the covers of this book: check Munroe's No Media Kings website (www.nomediakings.org) for a hilarious series of letters he wrote to big companies like McDonald's and Coke, charging them for "product placements" in the book.
	www.challengingdestiny.com /reviews/everyonesilico.htm (1019 words)

	ANGRY YOUNG SPACEMAN, by Jim Munroe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In 1999, Jim Munroe exploded onto the SF scene with Flyboy Action Figure Comes With Gasmask, a first novel that Kirkus Reviews called, "Wonderfully written.… A debut notable for the spectacular insouciance of its dialogue and an unstoppable, fearless, herky-jerky flow of inventive humor.
		Munroe masterfully carries off his admittedly weird conceits, suspends our disbelief, and gives us nothing but delight in his imagination." These are strong words, to be sure, but Monroe's new novel proves they were anything but an exaggeration.
		Jim Munroe's first novel, Flyboy Action Figure Comes With Gasmask, was published by HarperCollins in 1999.
	www.4w8w.com /bookmunroe1.html (448 words)

	Salon Reviews \| "Flyboy Action Figure Comes With Gasmask" by Jim Munroe
		Obviously, Jim Munroe saw it on video when he was a kid (or caught the crummy 1986 remake with Jeff Goldblum) and it changed his life; this 26-year-old Canadian's first novel tackles a similar subject.
		Munroe treats Ryan's and Cassandra's powers as examples of the miraculous forces lurking beneath the skin of the world.
		The writer that he actually most resembles is Richard Brautigan, that wonderful hippie (really a latent beat) who authored such arch works of fantasy-Americana as "The Abortion: An Historical Romance 1966," a love story set in a San Francisco library where patrons deposit the books they've written.
	www.salon.com /books/review/1999/11/19/munroe/print.html (590 words)

	Reviews: Jim Munroe's Everyone in Silico, reviewed by James Palmer
		Munroe deals with multiple points of view this time, adding a depth that his first two books, while great, lack.
		Munroe attacks the ways in which capitalism is like a pyramid scheme, and the ways in which it exploits workers.
		What I like best about Jim Munroe is that he knows how to use the trappings and tropes of science fiction to tell great stories, without trying to belong to any of the cliques.
	www.strangehorizons.com /2004/20040412/silico.shtml (867 words)

	Digital Web Magazine - Everyone in Silico
		Jim's honesty is apparent when he implores the visitor to buy from him directly, demonstrating with a helpful graph how it allows him to make more than double the amount he'd receive if the book were bought at a retailer.
		Jim's willingness to share his own experiences, both successes and failures, make you want to reward him for his work, whether you read science fiction or not.
		Munroe is equal parts social critic and futurist, and his sense of humor is present on every page.
	www.digital-web.com /reviews/book/bookreview_2002-05.shtml (1010 words)

	Salon Books \| "Flyboy Action Figure Comes With Gasmask" by Jim Munroe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Munroe's man-fly, Ryan, is no mad scientist, however.
		After all, just about the only things that flies really do is walk upside down on ceilings and nibble poop; Munroe resists the temptation to depict, William Burroughs-style, Ryan engaging in flydom's grosser activities.
		Munroe's story begins with similar whimsy: Ryan and Cassandra decide to fight evil by defacing cigarette billboards and supporting feminist "Take Back the Night" protests.
	www.salon.com /books/review/1999/11/19/munroe/index.html (747 words)

	Amazon.com: Everyone in Silico: Books: Jim Munroe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In Jim Munroe's near-future novel Everyone in Silico, San Francisco has been destroyed by an earthquake and replaced by the virtual city of Frisco.
		Everyone in Silico is the third novel by Jim Munroe, the former managing editor of radical anti-advertising magazine Adbusters.
		Canadian author Munroe's third novel (after Flyboy Action Figure Comes with Gas Mask and Angry Young Spaceman), set in Vancouver, offers a fresh and amusing take on how technology can be used or misused in a consumption-obsessed society.
	www.amazon.com /Everyone-Silico-Jim-Munroe/dp/product-description/1568582404 (965 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: Flyboy Action Figure Comes With Gasmask
		Munroe is playing with a lot of plot strings here and generally he succeeds in keeping them from getting tangled and knotted off.
		Munroe keeps the story at a much smaller, more intimate level.
		Munroe has a real gift for smart dialogue and brisk wordplay, but his plotting seems less sure.
	www.sfsite.com /12a/fly70.htm (779 words)

	Profile of CSJ dog food user - Jim Munroe - Morayglen
		Jim used to fly falcons in the early seventies and bought a Spaniel, which he trained to flush rabbits for his birds — that was the beginning.
		Jim currently has a young dog — Glennbriar Cafferty of Morayglen, who he says, "Is coming along fine" and who has already won tests.
		As well as competing, Jim also trains other peoples’ dogs and during 2005 all those attending his classes have won various tests plus awards in trials.
	www.csjk9.com /profile-details.asp?pid=8 (378 words)

	dirty monkey bugspray fun: Everyone In Silico by Jim Munroe
		Munro's style-in-trade is that of social-activist meets sci-fi.
		The ante is up on this third book, as Munro explores yet another future not so far off where San Francisco has become the place to be, where your body is vacated and your mind enters a server to live in an, arguably, Matrix-esque pseudo-reality.
		Munroe remains a crafty voice, and as the guru of the self-publishing-as-the-rock-n-roll-boys-do movement, he remains a writer of interest, especially as his talent and ambition develops.
	www.sauna.org /monkey/archives/003510.html (856 words)

	Review of Jim Munroe's Angry Young Spaceman
		Munroe has a number of advantages over others who have tried the same route.
		Thirdly, Munroe is actually a good writer, which is the best way to set him apart from the legions of Internet prose artists.
		Munroe has taken one of the oldest clichés of science fiction, the superiority of homo sapiens, and revealed the harsh, seething xenophobia that it actually represents.
	www.challengingdestiny.com /reviews/angryyoung.htm (857 words)

	TDR Interview: Jim Munroe
		Jim Munroe is his own one-man band, publisher and popular culture theorist.
		I like my novels to be entertaining, but not so much that the characters have no structural integrity--if I treat them like little puppets and fall guys then the spell of reality is broken.
		Nathaniel G. Moore interviewed Jim Munroe in the fall of 2004.
	www.danforthreview.com /features/interviews/jim_munroe.htm (869 words)

	Amazon.fr : Flyboy Action Figure Comes with Gasmask: Livres en anglais: Jim Munroe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		By the end, the Superheroes and their ragtag crew emerge from a m?lange of puerile pranks, sophomoric insights and escapist stunts still young but with a good deal more direction.
		Munroe's exuberant, often original phrasings rescue the prose from tediously earnest heart-to-hearts and dialogue that can read like a press release.
		Munroe's splashy debut is the story of an average college student who can, uh, turn into a fly.
	www.amazon.fr /Flyboy-Action-Figure-Comes-Gasmask/dp/0006480918 (582 words)

	No Media Kings » RoommateFromHell.com
		Jim Munroe’s new novel in 88 blog entries Jim Munroe — the author of the wonderful anarcho-science-fiction novels Flyboy Action…
		I’m wondering if Jim had the numerology bit in his head when he wrote this.
		I'm Jim Munroe, a novelist who left HarperCollins to showcase and propagate indie press alternatives to Rupert Murdoch-style consolidation.
	nomediakings.org /books/roommatefromhellcom.html (1095 words)

	Magnifisyncopathological: Jim Munroe Needs Slaves
		Munroe 's attempt to fight against immutable economic laws of human nature is admirable, but dangerous and stupid.
		Munroe's comparison to private industry R&D is misleading.
		Munroe's claim that clean air has less value on the market than a can of Coke is silly because the marginal value of air is less than the marginal value of a Coke...given today's context.
	www.drizzten.com /blargchives/000865.html (1773 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: Everyone In Silico
		However Frisco is actually an ambiguous dystopia; Jim Munroe shows its seductive appeal but at the same time why it is an empty promise, like the very corporate culture that has created it.
		Like those writers, Munroe is fascinated by emergent counterculture, by tribes, cliques and clades.
		Through a wealth of detail, Munroe shows us the endpoint of corporate capitalism, where everything is branded and for sale.
	www.sfsite.com /09b/es136.htm (873 words)

	Mote MGZN -- Jim Munroe interview
		When it came time to publish Munroe's second book he had second thoughts about working for Rupert Murdoch and started his own publishing company.
		His second novel, Angry Young Spaceman, was an amusing stab in the heart of American cultural imperialism from the point of view of an English as a Second Language teacher working on alien planets.
		Jim Munroe: Not the kids so much, but I know a couple of science students (including my girlfriend-to-be) got a kick out of it.
	www.moregoatthangoose.com /interviews/jimmunroe.htm (1951 words)

	Wrestling the Angel: Profile: Jim Munroe
		I recently stumbled on novelist Jim Munroe's DIY publishing empire, No Media Kings.
		Then dig around No Media Kings to read about how he wrote his first novel in 21 weeks (you can now download the e-book version for free), what it was like to publish with HarperCollins, and a budget breakdown of his revenue and expenses for his self-published novel Angry Young Spaceman.
		What I find really inspiring about Munroe's story is how he questioned the conventional wisdom about how authors are supposed to make money, and capitalized on his own experience in zine publishing and self-promotion to find new ways to support himself by writing.
	www.wrestlingtheangel.com /archives/000387.html (211 words)

	Taddle Creek \| Past Due \| By Jim Munroe \| taddlecreekmag.com
		Jim Munroe’s new novel, Everyone In Silico, is set in 2036 in a future even more corporatized than our present.
		Munroe says he believes books still have a cultural power “that allows us to speak to ourselves in a profound and honest voice.
		Allowing the same kind of ad saturation in books that we allow in other media means that we’re willing to trade-off this power for something much less important.” As a result, he was uncomfortable giving these companies and products what amounted to free advertising.
	www.taddlecreekmag.com /past_due.shtml (2285 words)

	Everyone In Silico by Jim Munroe - Free eBook
		this, like most of Munroe's later works seems to suffer from his perception that he doesn't need END his books.
		Of course, the change in writing style comes with his recent change in politics from indie publisher to Walmart supporter, one can't help but think that there's a connection.
		It doesn't have the most "tidy" ending, but it leaves room for the reader's imagination to "fill in the blanks".
	manybooks.net /titles/munroejother05everyoneinsilico.html (406 words)

	Boing Boing: Jim Munroe's new novel in 88 blog entries
		Boing Boing: Jim Munroe's new novel in 88 blog entries
		Jim Munroe's new novel in 88 blog entries
		Jim Munroe -- the author of the wonderful anarcho-science-fiction novels Flyboy Action Figure Comes With Gasmask, Angry Young Spaceman, Everyone in Silico and others; and a former managing editor of AdBusters -- has a new novel out, whose premise is that it is the blog of the roommate of a demonness.
	www.boingboing.net /2004/08/09/jim_munroes_new_nove.html (260 words)

	scribblingwoman: Jim Munroe's Angry Young Spaceman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		I have just begun Munroe's Angry Young Spaceman; a friend of mine gave a paper on it some time back so I got hold of a copy but have only now just picked it up.
		The central conceit is great: a young man goes to a distant planet to teach E.S.L. The book itself is fascinating, as an object: beautifully produced—here is an animated version of the cover—and self published by Munroe under his NoMediaKings imprint out of Kensington Market in Toronto, an old stomping ground of mine.
		The novel slyly plays with sf tropes; our hero, Sam, even goes to a planet populated by aliens with tentacles (shades of Kronos and Kang.).
	www.unbsj.ca /arts/english/jones/mt/archives/000136.html (171 words)

	Amazon.com: Everyone in Silico: Books: Jim Munroe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Jim's novel is very much a reflection and projection of his personality and interests.
		The anarchist former managing editor of Adbusters crams a lot of political, cultural, and scientific concepts into this novel, which is a good companion read to the work of Cory Doctorow.
		Jim's ideas of homegrown genetic engineering, subcultural self-organization, street-level marketing, and the economics and experience of a digital afterlife are fascinating and forward thinking.
	amazon.com /Everyone-Silico-Jim-Munroe/dp/.../1568582404 (1540 words)

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