What’s Up, Tiger Lily? by Paul Di Filippo. Short summary

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The main character is Bas Applebrook. This man invented in 2018 proteobumaga, a material capable of transforming information placed in newspapers. But one day there was a glitch.

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The protagonist is Bas Applebrook.

The aforementioned representative of the stronger sex, as a result of successful tests, created a material that later became known as proteobumaga. Its main purpose is to transform the information that is placed on the pages of print media.

June 25, 2029, was a day that began for Bass as good and carefree as any other. The inventor was immersed in happy thoughts, but he soon noticed how the content of the newspaper he had chosen to read in the morning suddenly changed. Such a strange phenomenon surprised Mr. Applebrook so much that he spilled the nutritious cocktail all over the table.

He knew that the transformation of a print publication in itself did not bode ill-it happens every day to millions of newspapers around the world.

However, Bass was frightened that the content of the newspaper had changed drastically, although he had not given such a command.

The protagonist decided to find out what was wrong.