Time for Robo A Novel Author:Peter Plagens A painting that alters itself, or is altered, as the artist sleeps. A computer that may be God and quacks like a duck. A basketball forward who disappears in the middle of the night. An evangelist who screams himself out of the moment as his wife and children are blown to bits by a bomb dropped from a balloon. A cult of computer programmers. In... more » his robust fiction debut, Peter Plagens, art critic for Newsweek magazine and himself a painter, has written a novel about time, perception, the nature of reality and characters who transform themselves or are transformed as the painting is transformed. In theme and technique, Time for Robo invites comparison with Gravity's Rainbow and Slaughterhouse Five.« less