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Spanning the period between the Chicago World's Fair

of 1893 and the years just after World War I, this

novel moves from the labor troubles in Colorado to turn-of-the-century New York, to London and Gottingen, Venice and Vienna, the Balkans, Central Asia, Siberia at the time of the mysterious Tunguska Event, Mexico during the revolution, postwar Paris, silent-era Hollywood, and one or two places not strictly speaking on the map at all.

With a worldwide disaster looming just a few years

ahead, it is a time of unrestrained corporate greed,

false religiosity, moronic fecklessness, and evil

intent in high places. No reference to the present day

is intended or should be inferred.

The sizable cast of characters includes anarchists, balloonists, gamblers, corporate tycoons, drug enthusiasts, innocents and decadents, mathematicians, mad scientists, shamans, psychics, and stage magicians, spies, detectives, adventuresses, and hired guns. There are cameo appearances by Nikola Tesla, Bela Lugosi, and Groucho Marx.

As an era of certainty comes crashing down around

their ears and an unpredictable future commences,

these folks are mostly just trying to pursue their

lives. Sometimes they manage to catch up; sometimes

it's their lives that pursue them.

Meanwhile, the author is up to his usual business.

Characters stop what they're doing to sing what are

for the most part stupid songs. Strange sexual

practices take place. Obscure languages are spoken,

not always idiomatically. Contrary-to-the-fact

occurrences occur. If it is not the world, it is what

the world might be with a minor adjustment or two.

According to some, this is one of the main purposes of

fiction.

Let the reader decide, let the reader beware. Good

luck.

--Thomas Pynchon