World Behind the Door : An Encounter with Salvador Dali

by Resnick, Mike

• ISBN13: 9780823004164
• ISBN10: 0823004163
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-08-07
• Publisher: Watson-Guptill

Summary

Salvador Dali's The Persistence of Memory is one of the most memorable images i the world. Now the surrealist masterpiece is at the centre of a compelling scence-fiction story from world-renowned author Mike Resnick. His remarkable newale reveals the connection between Dali's celebrated painting and quantum phyics ...because, it turns out, Dali often travelled to an alternate universe, were he got a lot of his ideas from a young girl named Jinx. Meet Jinx in "Worl Behind the Door", along with Sigmund Freud, Werner Heisenberg, and other histrical characters.

Author Biography

Mike Resnick, the world’s most honored science-fiction author, has won the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, and virtually every other award in his field. He is the author of two other Art Encounters titles, Lady with an Alien and A Club in Montmartre. His other novels include Kirinyaga and Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge. His work appears regularly in Asimov’s Science Fiction and Science Fiction Chronicle. He lives in Cincinnati, OH.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Reality Is a Bore	p. 1
The Dubious Hypnotic	p. 7
Hunting for the Snark	p. 13
Jinx	p. 17
When the Ludicrous Isn't	p. 25
Effect and Cause	p. 33
An Angry Figment	p. 43
New Perspectives	p. 49
The Camembert of Time	p. 57
The Greatest Villain	p. 63
The Finishing Touch	p. 69
The Persistence of Gala	p. 73
Wedded Blitz	p. 79
Escape	p. 83
Big Town	p. 91
Alternatives	p. 97
Antidotes	p. 101
Heisenberg	p. 105
Disintegration	p. 113
Resurrection	p. 117
Dali's Life and Art	p. 121
A Time Line of Dali's Life	p. 125
For More Information	p. 127
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