“The digital sun rises in a television sky.“ In the Ultimart Dome, over twenty million people are born, live, and die without ever stepping foot outside, without breathing a single lungful of fresh air, or even seeing the real sun. They see a fake television sky over artificial grass, plastic trees, toilet-blue water, crammed with colorful, decaying malls and corporate serfdom. At the center of it all is The Dream, the suburban fantasy of comfort and plenty nestled in the exclusive core of the Ultimart Dome. Corwin Scaggs suffers through a precarious living in a low-level AI advertising firm, surviving in a rented box with his wife and young son. He’s surviving the four hours of sleep everyone’s allowed each night, the yearly Black Friday massacres, the brutality of Ultimart Security, and the constant barrage of mindless pop culture and social media insanity. His family lives on the razor’s edge of “bankruptcy”, a one-way ticket to corporate slavery in its enormous underground factories. That is, until a fateful meeting with a dangerous woman upends his life and sends him hurtling towards a dangerous truth about the Dome. Something he can’t believe. Something he can no longer ignore. Praise for “Carl Wilhoyte dazzles with ULTIMART, his debut novel. Wilhoyte’s exploration of society, of grief and love, of life and death, star in this dystopian tale of one person’s journey toward a better existence, toward amenable survival. The stark nonchalance and dark humor make this a novel for our times, a contemporary feast that shouldn’t be missed.” – Michael Czyzniejewski, author of THE AMNESIAC IN THE MAZE, STORIES “A Faustian tale... Wilhoyte’s sharp satire of a man trying to rise in a horrific future world filled with dead ends and bad choices illuminates the excesses of our own world. A compelling read.” – Lawrence Coates, author of CAMP OLVIDO (Paperback, 410 pages)