The Subject Steve AUTH-13846900 and Cinequest

and Cinequest

She lives in Hillsborough

Chasing Science at Sea immerses readers in the world of those who regularly go to sea--aquanauts living underwater

Brian James Shanley

perched amongst the clouds in New Hampshire's White Mountains

The Subject Steve AUTH-13846900 and CinequestMeet Steve (not his real name), a Special Case, in truth a Terminal Case, and the eponymous antihero of Sam Lipsyte's first novel. Steve has been informed by two doctors that he is dying of a condition of unquestioned fatality, with no discernible physical cause. Eager for fame, and to brand the new plague, they dub it Goldfarb Blackstone Preparatory Extinction Syndrome, or PREXIS for short. Turns out, though, Steve's just dying of boredom. The