Bøger af Sheridan Tatsuno

Kabuki Bank faces financial collapse when its office tower in downtown San Francisco remains empty during remote work. The owner wants to sell it and return to Osaka, but their daughter Ayako loses her leg in an accident. Begging to stay in the City, she asks Brad Morioka to print a 3D leg with a tattoo design, which attracts other 3D printer ventures and turns SF into the Tattoo capital. All goes well attracting young Goth and cosplay fashion designers, robot startups, J-Pop musicians and others open pop-up shops in the Kabuki Bank offices, but disaster strikes when cyber crooks attack in the new Barbary Coast. Enjoy the cops-and-robber "Kabuki politics" showdown to save the fledgling businesses downtown.

In a modern retelling of "La Boheme", an ailing social marketer organizes a climate musical based on Dante's "Paradiso" to employ her evicted artist friends but must lead them to paradise in a Virtual Paradiso after Covid-19 shuts down all public places. It is her love song and farewell to San Francisco.

Cities are our cultural lodestone, the foundation of our civilization. How do we survive and thrive in our ghost cities during the devastating Covid-19 pandemic? What can we learn from our ancestors? How do we want to reimagine and reinvent our lives and cities coming out of Covid-19? These poems raise questions about our feelings and thoughts during today's global tragedy.

San Francisco's Japantown struggles to survive during Covid-19 lockdown. Facing evictions and bankruptcies, a task force asks a virtual reality (VR) master to save local merchants, artists and nonprofits by creating a Virtual Japantown mall and entertainment complex. To their surprise, he and a Japanese solar sculptor create a stunning Obon dance festival that attracts millions of online customers in an unforgettable tale of redemption, survival and love.

In this modern retelling of Dante's Divine Comedy, San Francisco scrambles to help rebuild East Bay communities destroyed by wildfires, which leave half a million climate refugees homeless in the streets of San Francisco. The City's heroes deploy tent towns, cruise liners and virtual reality (VR) to organize the recovery before rainstorms hit.

An immigrant Kyoto fashion designer faces off with San Francisco's mayor over possible eviction of her "Kimono Minds" shop from Japantown by the City, which is pressured by major Asian corporations aiming to rebuild Japantown as a luxury resort. Believing that one "builds the future on the past" like Kyoto, she rallies her "seven samurai" designers who protest in gorgeous kimonos before the media. Inspired by Tanizaki's "Makioka Sisters, "Austen's "Pride and Prejudice," and Kurosawa's "Seven Samurai," this comedy family novel explores the challenges of saving a kimono shop and marrying off three daughters who rebel against tradition with their desire to build their own Goth, Cosplay and VR fashion businesses. Join the thrills and tears of reinventing SF's Japantown and regenerative fashion industry for future generations!

In this era of climate disasters, CHAOS explores the challenges of confronting and overcoming our fears and inaction through passion and love for the Earth, based on a retelling of Dante's journey in "The Divine Comedy" through the Inferno and Purgatory to Paradise.