The Other Planet: A Novel of the Future
Ascher/Straus
(Author)
Stephen Beachy
(Foreword by)
Description
Three decades ago this magical, speculative novel anticipated the Internet, the fatal attraction of televised celebrity, and our obsession with inhabiting an unmoored electronic future. The Other Planet has never been more relevant than today, and beckons to new generations of intrepid readers.
Product Details
Price
$16.00
$14.88
Publisher
McPherson
Publish Date
September 03, 2018
Pages
256
Dimensions
5.5 X 0.9 X 8.4 inches | 0.88 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781620540336
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About the Author
The award-winning fiction of Ascher/Straus has appeared widely in magazines, including Chicago Review, The Paris Review, Chelsea, Sun and Moon, Epoch and Exile. Most recently, both Exile and the online journal Your Impossible Voice have published early installments of their much-anticipated novel-in-progress, Headless World. Ascher/Straus's long history of creating narratives outside traditional boundaries (beginning with the unbound books, interactive fiction events/installations called SPACE NOVELS in the late 70's and 80's) has, since 2008, continued in Monica's Chronicle, an endless sketchbook drawn directly from life, meant as a model for another idea of fiction, and published in installments on their website.
Reviews
"A pretty definitive statement about the post-modern experience... The future is sparked by a mysterious stranger, Humberto Vilanescu. Rich, foreign, partly messianic and partly Mephistophelian,l l l. This is a mysterious, absorbing, sexy and troubling reflection on these weird times, and it should be read." -- John Strausbaugh "City Paper"
"Full of surreal dreams and brief, startlingly erotic episodes.... The book is best at ordinary life, with a nod to William Carlos Williams in its surprising, saturated colors and sudden, sensuous cravings." -- N/A "Publishers Weekly"
"A style reminiscent of experimentalists Stanislaw Lem and Samuel R. Delaney." -- N/A "Library Journal"
"Full of surreal dreams and brief, startlingly erotic episodes.... The book is best at ordinary life, with a nod to William Carlos Williams in its surprising, saturated colors and sudden, sensuous cravings." -- N/A "Publishers Weekly"
"A style reminiscent of experimentalists Stanislaw Lem and Samuel R. Delaney." -- N/A "Library Journal"
