AUTOGRAPHED COPY - M is Michael Aro’s dark, satirical commentary on our twenty-first century global monoculture of capitalism, technology and entertainment. It presents the stories of a bookstore clerk, a five-dimensional alien, a cabal of nine individuals who control the world’s political, socio-economic, and religious institutions, an orphan genius, a group of monks on a sand mandala tour, and Artificial Intelligences modeled after Tesla, Nietzche, Erasmus, Joan of Arc and Barbie. The result is a devastatingly funny critique of contemporary civilization. M is a National Literary Awards Winner - 2008 Space Odyssey Award for Science Fiction from the National Literary Foundation.