“SIX TO 18 HOURS FROM NOW” is a pleasantly unsettling collection of detours on the road just ahead, stories offering the discriminating reader wryly humorous and memorably twisted projections of what's next. Explore the Plus-Side of Nuclear Meltdowns, Modern Lust in Many of its Forms, Our Cybernetic Future, the Most Beautiful Girl in the Universe, Email-Blackmail, “Human Resources”, Retirement Solutions for the Baby Boomer, the surprising side-effects of our Panoptic Surveillance Culture, Bolsheviks, Nazis, How to End Religious Strife, Fathers and Sons, Six-Mile Bamboo, 9/11, the Nascent Science of Interstellar Geobotany, the Next American Civil War, Bloody Murder, and, perhaps most rank, the Horrors of Advertising. All these excursions are carefully crafted to pierce comfort levels and to stir obliging laughter like the gentle tickle of an assegai to the sternum. Kroll, a Princeton graduate, advertising copywriter and commercial voiceover artist in the New York City area, has never properly recovered from reading "Fail-Safe" in the fifth grade. His previous book, inspired by the work of Stanley Kubrick, is “Fourth & Gogol: The True Story of Russia’s Top-Secret American Football Program.” It may still be remaindered somewhere.