Tangled Tales of the Book Trade : Or the Mystery of the Missing Century

by Loye, David

• ISBN13: 9780979525735
• ISBN10: 097952573X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-09-30
• Publisher: Lightning Source Inc

Summary

Science Fiction/SatireAre we living in the real first years of the 21st century? Or has GOD, losing patience, decided to replace us with a big chunk of something better?This the question raised by the most stupendous and monumental mystery story of all time. As the nightmares of 115 year old author Dilbert Dickens unfold, we meet a startling succession of famous authors and scientists seeking publication of their work in the late 20th and early 21st century. Thomas Wolfe meets the nightmare?s Maxwell Perkins. Arthur Koestler meets the nightmare Pascal Covici. Will Durant, Edgar Casey, Kenneth Graham with Wind in the Willows, Charles Darwin with The Descent of Man?even the return of Jesus and Gautama to try to save the world come up against the Rapper-Snapper, Way-Cool-and-With-It New Stone Wall of Indifference and Incomprehension. As the Zeitgeist morphs from publishing to politics, things go from bad to worse. The trance breaks. The mood turns violently against the current President, Vice President, cohorts and political party. The endangered corporate, political, religious, and military leadership decides to make the move long under discussion but always previously backed away from?the touch to the single red button that will unleash seizure of the nation and thereafter the whole world of, by, and for the Right People.Not until four centuries later is it known what happened. For in 2407 a consortium of physicists and historians come to the astonished conclusion that a whole century plus eight more fateful years had been dropped from time! Was it a case of GOD to the rescue? Much as every spring we set our clocks backward to accommodate daylight savings time, or as we add a day for leap year, had an unpalatable chunk of two centuries simply been dropped and replaced either by GOD, as many claimed, or by Evolution, as was claimed by others?Evoking commentaries on earlier eras by Jonathan Swift, Nikolai Gogol, Charles Dickens, Lewis Carroll, George Orwell, and Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Tangled Tales seeks to capture the peculiar thing that is our time. This is the fourth book in the five book Entertainment and Humor Cycle by award-winning author David Loye.