The Other Planet (paperback)
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30th Anniversary Edition
"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, he's a combination of the Aga Khan, Howard Hughes and The Man Who Fell to Earth. . . . This is a mysterious, absorbing, sexy and troubling reflection on these weird times, and it should be read." -- John Strausbaugh, City Paper
A highly prescient novel of science, magic and adventure, The Other Planet introduces Valeria Florescu, who quits her job in a modern research lab and sets out on a quest for "the extraordinary." On her journey into the furthest possibilities of the future, Valeria travels through hilariously tragic and tragically hilarious banalities of American life. Eerily, this novel played a small but acknowledged part in the Romanian Revolution after the authors were interviewed by the Romanian desk of Radio Free Europe.
Paperback, 256 pages, 5.5 x 8.5", 2018, 978-1-62054-034-3
"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, he's a combination of the Aga Khan, Howard Hughes and The Man Who Fell to Earth. . . . This is a mysterious, absorbing, sexy and troubling reflection on these weird times, and it should be read." -- John Strausbaugh, City Paper
A highly prescient novel of science, magic and adventure, The Other Planet introduces Valeria Florescu, who quits her job in a modern research lab and sets out on a quest for "the extraordinary." On her journey into the furthest possibilities of the future, Valeria travels through hilariously tragic and tragically hilarious banalities of American life. Eerily, this novel played a small but acknowledged part in the Romanian Revolution after the authors were interviewed by the Romanian desk of Radio Free Europe.
Paperback, 256 pages, 5.5 x 8.5", 2018, 978-1-62054-034-3