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The Dream of Perpetual Motion Hardback - 2010

by Dexter Palmer

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A debut so magical... so extraordinary... it has to be read to be believed....

Imprisoned for life aboard a zeppelin that floats high above a fantastic metropolis, the greeting-card writer Harold Winslow pens his memoirs. His only companions are the disembodied voice of Miranda Taligent, the only woman he has ever loved, and the cryogenically frozen body of her father Prospero, the genius and industrial magnate who drove her insane.

The tale of Harold's life is also one of an alternate reality, a lucid waking dream in which the well-heeled have mechanical men for servants, where the realms of fairy tales can be built from scratch, where replicas of deserted islands exist within skyscrapers.. As Harold's childhood infatuation with Miranda changes over twenty years to love and then to obsession, the visionary inventions of her father also change Harold's entire world, transforming it from a place of music and miracles to one of machines and noise. And as Harold heads toward a last desperate confrontation with Prospero to save Miranda's life, he finds himself an unwitting participant in the creation of the greatest invention of them all: the perpetual motion machine.

Beautifully written, stunningly imagined, and wickedly funny, The Dream of Perpetual Motion is a heartfelt meditation on the place of love in a world dominated by technology.

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  • Title The Dream of Perpetual Motion
  • Author Dexter Palmer
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 340
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher St. Martin's Press, New York
  • Publication date 2010-03
  • ISBN 9780312558154 / 0312558155
  • Weight 1.2 lbs (0.54 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.5 x 6.62 x 1.19 in (24.13 x 16.81 x 3.02 cm)
  • Category Fiction - Science Fiction
  • Library of Congress subjects Science fiction, Prisoners
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2009040231
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

DEXTER PALMER lives in Princeton, New Jersey. He holds a Ph.D. in English Literature from Princeton University, where he completed his dissertation on the work of James Joyce, William Gaddis, and Thomas Pynchon (and where he also staged the first academic conference ever held at an Ivy League university on the subject of video games).

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