The Mysterious Islands

the mysterious islands

Following the startling success of THE FINAL DEATH OF ROCK-AND-ROLL AND OTHER STORIES DeAnnuntis offers in this second collection a series of tales to embody paradoxes which challenge what we assume can be known. Each takes place in a world that resembles one we recognize yet each suggests a gap. The question of whether those spaces are part of the world or within ourselves leads to intriguing and unlikely but immensely entertaining confusions. Do our perceptions reveal the world or conjure it? Is what we know more about the world or other than the world? When we make a prediction about the world which fails, is that failure the result of our insufficient knowledge or does the world occasionally actively resist and contradict our recognition of it? Whether as scientists gathering information or someone trying to find a job, a dreamer of auto repair or a cartoon character in love with a First Lady, the tales of DeAnnuntis' collection like medieval fables offer conjectures about these questions that nearly resemble answers.

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