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The Fan-Shaped Destiny of William Seabrook, available from AOL Time Warner Book group, (link on left) proclaims the long concealed wellsprings of the branching worlds in literature. Neither sequel nor prequel, the forthcoming companion volume Reckoning, an other book of The Fan-Shaped Destiny, flanks FSD from the side.
Reciprocal histories warp and twist around the years--to frame turbulent decades that are only imagined to be an orderly march into an uncertain new millennium. Worlds collide as this work of non-linear storytelling reveals what we, a lifetime into the elaboration of quantum mechanics, have yet to admit about our existence in an other-than-unitary cosmos.
I>B>Reckoning/B>/I> orbits everywhere from 1932 to 2013, spiraling in upon pivotal events during the Sixties. Unsanitized by flower-power fantasies, that decade seems an alternate world in itself. It's a dangerous time when sex and drugs represent escape from war, hatred, and arbitrary rule by a vicious gerontocracy.
Longing after a time before, and a future that might yet be, a man returns to avert an assassination. Conundrums surround the murder of his best friend, the women of his life liberated from their temporal sequence, the consequences of roads not taken--all haunted by r | |  | | The Fan-Shaped Destiny of William Seabrook
The Fan-Shaped Destiny of William Seabrook answers the most fervent prayer of all mankind, for another chance--but chance is all there is, ever--in one world or many.
(To learn more about Wm Seabrook and the Fan-Shaped Destiny, read Paul Pipkin's "Things Done by Shadows" in the February 2003 issue of The New York Review of Science Fiction.)
B>"To the one who perhaps cared the most."/B>
In the twilight of the 20th century, a young woman broods over a cryptic birthright, an inheritance addressed to her before she was born. Shaped by an abusive past, she seeks intense sensations to unchain her heart.
Meanwhile, a nameless, corroded Sixties malcontent orbits the far point of his life. As his reason unravels, he pines for the redemption of an exhausted history.
And in a darkening yesterday, William Seabrook, an all-but-forgotten writer of the Lost Generation--expatriate, explorer, suicide--wrestles with |
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