Past Master (1968) by R A Lafferty
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pdf | 8.39 MB | English | Isbn:‎ B07PCL328Z | Author: R. A. Lafferty | Year: 2019
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Wolf Hall В meetsВ The Man in the High Castle В in this mind-bending science fiction classic, now presented in an authoritative new edition from Library of America
Plucked from time, Sir Thomas More arrives on the human colony ofВ AstrobeВ in the year 2535 A.D., where there is trouble in utopia. Can he andВ his motley followers save this golden world from the Programmed Persons, and the soulless perfection they have engineered?
The survival of faith itself is at stake in this thrilling, uncategorizable, wildly inventive first novel—but the adventure is more than one of ideas. As astonishingly as Philip K. Dick and other visionaries of the 1960s new wave, Lafferty turns the conventions of space-opera science fiction upside-down and inside-out. Here are fractured allegories, tales-within-tales, twinkle-in-the-eye surprises, fantastic byways, and alien subjectivities that take one's breath away. Neil Gaiman has described Lafferty "a genius, an oddball, a madman"; Gene Wolfe calls him "our most original writer." Long-hailed by insiders and now with an introduction by Andrew Ferguson as well as unpublished omitted passages included in the notes, Past Master  deserves to perplex and delight a wider audience.
Plucked from time, Sir Thomas More arrives on the human colony ofВ AstrobeВ in the year 2535 A.D., where there is trouble in utopia. Can he andВ his motley followers save this golden world from the Programmed Persons, and the soulless perfection they have engineered?
The survival of faith itself is at stake in this thrilling, uncategorizable, wildly inventive first novel—but the adventure is more than one of ideas. As astonishingly as Philip K. Dick and other visionaries of the 1960s new wave, Lafferty turns the conventions of space-opera science fiction upside-down and inside-out. Here are fractured allegories, tales-within-tales, twinkle-in-the-eye surprises, fantastic byways, and alien subjectivities that take one's breath away. Neil Gaiman has described Lafferty "a genius, an oddball, a madman"; Gene Wolfe calls him "our most original writer." Long-hailed by insiders and now with an introduction by Andrew Ferguson as well as unpublished omitted passages included in the notes, Past Master  deserves to perplex and delight a wider audience.
Category:Humorous Science Fiction, Time Travel Fiction, Space Opera Science Fiction
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