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StarTwist Blue

Published
Sep 2000
Main Genre
Science Fiction / Fantasy Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Pages
392

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Eight decades have passed since you picked up this rollicking, rambunctious, wickedly satirical, unabashedly feminist, comic sci-fi odyssey. Halley's comet no longer returns, a retired circus clown with a gift for juggling is U.S. president, the first woman pope enjoys romantic liaisons with a philosopher-king hearkening back to Plato's Greece, brave Native Americans break free from barbed-wire reservations and terrorize the sleepy-eyed midwest, a renowned astronomer in Antwerp watches white drawfs suddenly become bowling balls and crash into toppling constellations, mystics in India protest demon-eyed capitalism by holding a hostage a sacred chain of the Himalayas, and the megaliths of Stonehenge crash near a witches' coven--anybody hurt?

Causes? The derring-do, no-holds-barred results of space-time interacting with the Julian calendar. Hey, a dozen decades have passed since you picked up this book. Erring planets and political theories travel near the speed of light. Stonehenge and the Himalayas pass on a highway in mid Ohio. Distant galaxies play musical chairs. The music of the spheres sounds eerily out of tune. Okay, you've been reading fifteen decades now compacted to a spin around the block and the two great, cosmic prophets--Edwin Hubble and John the Divine--pass like lonely ships in the solitary star-crossed night.

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First Edition Sep 2000 Xlibris Corporation ISBN13 9780738835693 ISBN10 0738835692
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