Eric Barnes

Eric Barnes edited the links to supplemental material of Shimmer Monday, May 31, 2010.

• Added a link: www.shimmerthebook.com (http://www.shimmerthebook.com) :
• Added a link: www.ericbarnes.net (http://www.ericbarnes.net) :

Eric Barnes edited the awards of Shimmer Monday, May 31, 2010.

• Added an award: IndieNext Pick
• Added year of an award: IndieNext Pick 2009
• Added month of an award: IndieNext Pick July

Eric Barnes edited the first edition of Shimmer Monday, May 31, 2010.

• changed the language: English
• changed the publisher: Unbridled Books
• changed the country: US
• changed the publication date: July 2009
• changed the ISBN: 1932961674
• changed the page count: 288

Eric Barnes edited the first sentence of Shimmer Monday, May 31, 2010.

• I'd started having dreams where I could fly.

Eric Barnes edited the settings of Shimmer Monday, May 31, 2010.

• changed the overview: The company headquarters in lower Manhattan.
• Added a setting: The building

Eric Barnes edited the memorable quotes of Shimmer Monday, May 31, 2010.

• Added a quotation: “I’d started having dreams where I could fly. Not dreams where I took firm, superhero steps that catapulted me up and into the sky. Not dreams where I soared at high speed over rivers, mountains and streams. Instead they were only dreams where I brought my right knee to my chest, in another moment lifted my left knee from the ground, my tightly curled body now hovering a few feet in the air.”
• Added a quotation: ““Why are you so preoccupied by sex?” Cliff asked.“I’m not preoccupied by sex,” Julie said, the edges of her teeth just showing as she turned her head, smiled. “I’m preoccupied by sexual innuendo.””
• Added a quotation: “I smiled. I thanked them. After a moment, I stood to leave.Once more I remembered that I would bankrupt them all. Cliff with his six kids. Julie with her newborn. Whitley, who’d just turned down top jobs at the largest software and telecom companies in the world. Leonard, whose father had been with my father, back when the company had employed just thirty people. All four of them with their homes and families and futures leveraged completely against their share of the company’s stock. Like hundreds of people throughout the company, these four would be left with nothing.And although I’d never wanted it to be this way, I was set to walk away with millions.”

Eric Barnes edited the characters of Shimmer Monday, May 31, 2010.

• Changed the section title: Cast of Characters/Important People
• Added a character: Robbie Case: Narrator and CEO of the company.
• marked the description of Robbie Case as not a spoiler
• Added a character: Trevor Case: Robbie's cousin and the head of sales.
• marked the description of Trevor Case as not a spoiler
• Added a character: Perry: Robbie's friend and confidante and conscience.
• marked the description of Perry as not a spoiler

Eric Barnes edited the summary of Shimmer Monday, May 31, 2010.

• In just three years, CEO Robbie Case has grown Core Communications, a data technology company, from 30 people to over 5,000. Now a $20 billion company made legendary by its sudden success, Core is based on a technology no other company can come close to copying, a revolutionary breakthrough known as drawing blood from a mainframe. And Robbie, its 35-year-old CEO, is acclaimed worldwide for his vision, leadership and wealth.

  Except that all of it is based on a lie.

  The technology doesn't work, the finances are built on a Ponzi scheme of stock sales and shell corporations, and Robbie is struggling to keep the company alive, to protect the friends who work for him and all that they ve built. Each day, Robbie tries to push the catastrophe back a little further, while his employees believe that they are all moving closer to grace, the day their stock options vest, when they will be made rich for their faith and loyalty and hard work. The details of the lie are all keyed into a shadowy interface that Robbie calls Shimmer, an omniscient mainframe that hides itself, calculates its own collapse, threatens to outsmart its creator and to reveal the corporation's illegal, fragile underpinnings.

  Shimmer is the story of a high-tech crusade nearing its end. The shell game Robbie has created is finally running out of room. And Robbie is the only one who knows. And he's the only one who has a chance to make things right.

Eric Barnes edited the ridiculously simplified synopses of Shimmer Monday, May 31, 2010.

• Added: Robbie Case is a star CEO. Robbie Case is a millionaire. Robbie Case has a secret.

Eric Barnes edited the description of Shimmer Monday, May 31, 2010.

• In just three years, CEO Robbie Case has grown Core Communications,Shimmer is a data technology company, from 30quiet and intense novel about the people to over 5,000. Nowand friends at the heart of a $20 billion company made legendary by its sudden success, Core is based onlie.

  A novel about a technology no other company can come close to copying, a revolutionary breakthrough known as drawing blood from a mainframe. And Robbie, its 35-year-old CEO, is acclaimed worldwide for his vision, leadershipconflicted hero, and wealth. Except that all of it is based onan ethical trap. Darkly comic, unpredictable, it’s a lie. The technology doesn t work, the finances are built on a Ponzi scheme of stock salesnovel about people and shell corporations,money, about friendships and sex.

  Robbie Case is struggling to keep the company alive, to protect the friends who work for him and all that they ve built. Each day, Robbie tries to push the catastrophe backa little further, while his employees believe that they are all moving closer to grace, the day their stock options vest, when they will be made rich for their faith and loyalty and hard work. The details of the lie are all keyed into a shadowy interface thatstar CEO. Robbie calls Shimmer, an omniscient mainframe that hides itself, calculates its own collapse, threatens to outsmart its creator and to reveal the corporation s illegal, fragile underpinnings. ShimmerCase is the story ofa high-tech crusade nearing its end. The shell gamemillionaire. Robbie Case has created is finally running outa secret.

  A story of room. And Robbie isself-deception and the only one who knows or who has a chance to make things right. Or is he?perils of arrogance. A breathless debut novel that chargesstory about the atmosphere with suspensecommitments we make to friends and surprisefamily and delivers complex characters you can root for in spite of their flaws, Shimmer is Robbie s race againstthe truth.strangers we look past every day.

  Shimmer. One man, one company, one disastrous lie.