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Part fantasy, part fabulism, part detective, award-winning author Chuck Rosenthal creates an alternative future for humankind and the universe.

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Overview

Part fantasy, part fabulism, part detective, award-winning author Chuck Rosenthal creates an alternative future for humankind and the universe.

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Chuck Rosenthal entertains his audience as he says we get what we ask for in this fascinating space thriller. . .
—Harriet Klausner
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Rosenthal's My Mistress, Humanity (2002) explored the trials facing a near-future Earth devastated by global warming. Now, 400 years later, with environmental disaster averted, a new but no less bewildering challenge faces human beings, who are dubbed homans after Earth becomes known simply as Home. Home's benign, amphibious, extraterrestrial rescuers, the Nutians, have stabilized the planet and supply its remaining populace with a steady diet of fish from Jupiter's transformed, cetacean-populated moon, Europa. In epigrammatic, bite-size chapters, Rosenthal follows the picaresque adventures of Marl, a 200-year-old half-homan, half-Nutian investigator seeking to discover why a fish-laden space freighter has been hijacked to a terraformed but still mostly desert-covered Mars. As he searches, Marl encounters intelligent whales, falls in love with an alien, and uncovers a brewing conspiracy against the Nutians. Rosenthal's quirky but poetic prose brims with allusions to classic literature, such as Conrad's Heart of Darkness, while envisioning one possible, albeit whimsically inventive, path humanity might take after surviving a major threat to its existence.Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved.
— Carl Hays
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[Rosenthal] creates a fully formed vision of the future in "The Heart of Mars," and it's a fascinating one.
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A must have for the serious science fiction reader looking for something more creative, visionary, and intellectual than the mainstream efforts currently on the market.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780977229857
  • Publisher: Hollyridge Press
  • Publication date: 4/1/2007
  • Pages: 172
  • Product dimensions: 6.00 (w) x 9.00 (h) x 0.56 (d)

Meet the Author

Chuck Rosenthal has published six novels (Loop's Progress, Experiments With Life & Deaf, Loop's End, Elena of the Stars, Jack Kerouac's Avatar Angel: His Last Novel and My Mistress, Humanity), the memoir, Never Let Me Go, and some two dozen stories in such prestigious literary journals as the Chicago Review, The Santa Monica Review and The Denver Quarterly. He is on the faculty at Loyola Marymount University, and lives in Los Angeles.

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The sky melts in icy whimsy, in raindrops or sleet. It falls in rocks of hail or hangs in the sky as floating hills of powdery snow. Upon them and within them the figures slide, prance, roar, plead. Sometimes the sky lays down stalactites of ice, as if the sea were but a maze of icy bars around which the wailing figures dance and complain, while the ocean, like some beast, rises in geysers to press itself against the solid sky, sometimes breaking through and exploding upward, raging and bubbling to the frigid surface in immense columns which you can see as you circle the moon, as if the ocean itself were building castles of ice to beguile the living to the moon's frozen, dead surface. Sometimes, below, there is only the ocean and the wind and the slap and howl of weather on this moon where the weather itself is almost alive. And sometimes everything stops and it is deadly silent. Often there is so much death imitating life that it is hard to tell the difference.

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