Whole Truth Witness / Life of the Author plus 70 (Future Fiction Book 10)

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Imagine Lieutenant Columbo - or even better, a Perry Mason of the future - dealing with nanotechnology and you'll have an idea about what can happen in the story "Whole Truth Witness" in which a woman is accused of wanting to create a defragmenter to reassemble media files with expired copyright. Our lawyer will have to defend her from a witness who - nanotechnologically speaking - is unable to tell a "lie".
And then imagine the case of a poor author forced to go in hibernation in order to escape the absurd claims of the tax authorities of the future, an Artificial Intelligence at the taxpayers' service.
These are the legal issues told in a light but stinging tone by Kenneth Schneyer, an author who knows very well about legal practices, being himself a lawyer, as well as a finalist for the 2014 Nebula and Sturgeon Award.

The Author: After a strange career that has included working as an actor, a corporate lawyer, an IT project manager, a professor, a dishwasher, and the assistant dean of a technology school, Kenneth Schneyer started writing original fiction in 2007.
In 2014, he received a Nebula nomination for his short story, "Selected Program Notes from the Retrospective Exhibition of Theresa Rosenberg Latimer", a story that was also a finalist for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award. He is a 2009 graduate of the Clarion Writers Workshop, an active member of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America, and a member of the Cambridge Science Fiction Workshop.
Born in Detroit, he now lives in Rhode Island with one singer, one dancer, one actor, and something with fangs.