Shimmer (novel)

The fictional company, Core Communications, is a provider of high end networking services to mainframe computers.

Along with his partner and cousin, Robbie has created an elaborate system that supposedly allows mainframe computers to communicate at impossibly fast speeds.

"—Publishers Weekly[2] "...a sheen of elegance and terror; one is reminded, in Barnes' language and locution, of Don DeLillo's scalpel-sharp delineation of American corporate culture and paranoia, and of David Foster Wallace's penetration into the heart of the relationship between human consciousness and rapidly changing technologies.

"—Wanda McKinney, Southern Living[This quote needs a citation] "[A] remarkable character study, unflinchingly probing the psyche of its flawed but compelling protagonist.

[A]s with … Delillo and Gibson, the technology, though high concept, is not the main subject of Barnes’ interest, except in the ways it transforms the characters.