Restore From Backup by J.F. Gonzalez and Michael Oliveri Bad Moon Books, ppbk, 2007, 95 pgs, $15.00

Welcome to a computer style cubicle hell.

Restore From Backup is a tight Twilight Zone-like kind of tale that read a little like a conspiracy freak's revision of Arthur C. Clarke's 1967 classic "The Nine Billion Names of God".

The novella begins as Lyle Henderson, an economically redundant laid off computer technician lucks into a brand new job at Kaiser Development Systems with a fat and cushy pay cheque, thanks to an inside tip from an old college buddy named Carl. Only is this good luck or bad luck? No one will tell him. His co-workers won't talk. His boss has hit the mute button and refuses to enlighten Lyle.

Then Carl disappears.

Then Carl drops dead.

There's something going on at Kaiser and Lyle needs to know what that is.

The answer to Lyle's question takes this novella in a direction this reviewer did not foresee.

This is a tale that will delight every single computer caveman klutz out there, who, like me, loves to use the darned machines but hasn't the faintest idea just how they work.

J.F. Gonzalez is famous, (or infamous), for his ultra-nasty snuff flick epic Survivor . Mike Oliveri is the recipient of the 2001 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First Novel for his novel Deadliest of the Species . As far as I can tell the collaboration is seamless. It's that hard to decide just where one writer left off and another began.

Restore From Backup is another in the growing series of books that have been released by Roy K. Robbins Bad Moon Books . The cover art is mind blowing. I recommend you pick it up.