The novel is supposedly set in the present day, yet it's a present day where everyone is keeping secret journals – page after page of descriptive prose – and writing letters, and no one is social networking or sending emails or recording their life in a non-anachronistic way.
But that's a present day problem.
Suddenly, I was a present-day cowgirl in Texas.
So researchers say there must be a present-day source of methane on Mars.
The first is set in a university creative writing class around the mid-1980s, though it could easily be a present-day setting.
George Lois, the pioneering magazine and ad designer, and his wife, Rosemary, say that, as a hostess and a matchmaker, Hastreiter is a present-day Gertrude Stein.
This book's noblest creation is a present-day college student, Gee, who is halfway between genders and confident about making a drastic surgical change.
She might equally be a present-day writer or, most likely, a fantasy made real by the workings of the male protagonist's troubled psyche.
With a non-systematic integration of known developments and upgrading design tips like recycling, improving "by plug" and oversizing to delay replacing, the results show that upgradability is a present-day opportunity to develop sustainable systems.
There will be lots more shooting, to capture Spain and Central America in the 1500's, a present-day American city, and then a trip out to a nebula near Orion anywhere from 150 to 500 years into the future.
