Format C

Two Millennial fears haunted most Americans at the turn of the last century: the sense of Armageddon, and the pending Y2K crisis. Both are woven together in Edwin Black's Format C:, a tense and compelling mystic techno-thriller about the final battle between good and evil fought against the race to fix the Millennium Bug that takes readers from the cutthroat computer world and big media competition of Chicago and DC to Jerusalem’s Old City to the caves of Qumran to the back alleyways of ancient Tsfat. What will happen at Har Megiddo at midnight on December 31, 1999?

The Format C tour ran from May 1999 through December 31, 2000 (the actual end of the millenium). Sponsors for the tour included Laphroaig, the National Down Syndrome Society, the New York PC Users Group, The New York OS/2 SIG, the Park Ave Synagogue, the five NYC-area Borders Books & Music stores (RIP), the Center for Millennial Studies at Boston University, Hebrew College, Brookline Books, Bennett Mortgage, the eight Massachusetts Borders stores, Tourmaline Studio, Mitchell Canoff Photography, the thirteen Chicagoland Borders stores, the Northern Orange County Computer Club, the Southern California OS/2 User Group, ABC Radio MIX, Regal Cinemas, the Capital PC Users Group, White Flint, Allegiance Bank, Tel Aviv Cafe, Bertolini’s, Congregation B’nai Tzedek, and the fifteen DC-area Borders stores.

Edwin spoke, signed books, and partied at bookstores, conferences, schools, and synaggogues in cities including Los Angeles, greater Washington DC, Baltimore, New York City, Boston, Cleveland, Dayton, Cincinnati, Chicago, greater Miami, Austin, San Jose, San Francisco, Berkeley, Frankfurt (Germany not Kentucky), Detroit, London (England not Ohio), Phoenix, and Roslyn LI.