{"title":"Cary Pepper","description":"Cary Pepper is a playwright, novelist, and screenwriter. His plays have been produced throughout the United States and internationally. Among his one-act plays, Small Things won the Robert R. Lehan Playwriting Award and the Tennessee Williams \u0026amp; New Orleans Literary Festival one-act play contest in 2006. It has also been airing on NPR as part of their Playing on Air series. Stealing Melissa won the Doc Jim Martin Playwright Competition, The Walrus Said won the Religious Arts Guild Playwriting Competition, and Party Favors won the Goshen College Peace Play Contest in 2016. Among his full-length plays, How It Works was performed as a staged reading at the Abingdon Theatre in New York City, was a finalist at Dayton Playhouse's FutureFest in 2010, and won the Ashland New Plays Festival in 2012. Cufflinked was a semifinalist in the 2014 Ashland New Plays Festival, And Jonah Rose Up was a semifinalist in the Dorothy Silver Playwriting Competition, and The Maltese Frenchman was a finalist for the National Play Award.","products":[{"product_id":"autokill-paperback","title":"Autokill - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDriverless cars race to kill in a thriller from \"Gridlock Sam\" Schwartz, who \"knows everything about how cars and people don't get along\", with Cary Pepper (\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e). \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe year is 2036. CAVs (Connected Autonomous Vehicles) comprise twenty-five percent of the cars on the nation's streets and roads, fleets of robo-cabs crisscross cities, and robos are revolutionizing the country's trucking industry. With new federal regulations in the works, CAVs are about to become an even more integral part of society, which greatly concerns two people, though for vastly different reasons.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRichard Corby, a climate change scientist specializing in artificial intelligence, despairs over Congress and a pro-business president repeating the misguided decisions that put cars over people at the turn of the twentieth century. Jason Bartel―a long-haul trucker who lost both his livelihood and his wife when his best routes were taken over by robo-trucks―believes CAVs will deprive Americans of their fundamental right to drive. Both men set out to change the script. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeanwhile, federal cybermarshal Dana Grant starts investigating the case of a CAV that blew past a stop sign and killed a woman. Blocked at every turn by her bureaucratic boss, Dana takes matters into her own hands and stumbles on a plot to use CAV technology to kill not one, but thousands of people. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFast-paced and lucid, \u003ci\u003eAutokill \u003c\/i\u003eexplores themes of technology, capitalism, and politics, and is a must-read for any futuristic thriller fan. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for Sam Schwartz's nonfiction examination of autonomous vehicles, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eNo One Behind the Wheel\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA \"clearheaded bible for the twenty-first-century road\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"...breathless and provocative\" --\u003ci\u003eForeign Policy Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51375384723679,"sku":"9798337208404","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/lpLreLT_I99798337208404.webp?v=1789200183"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/cary-pepper.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}