{"product_id":"past-master-9781598536461","title":"Past Master","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWolf Hall\u003c\/i\u003e meets \u003ci\u003eThe Man in the High Castle\u003c\/i\u003e in this mind-bending science fiction classic, now presented in an authoritative new edition from Library of America\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Plucked from time, Sir Thomas More arrives on the human colony of Astrobe in the year 2535 A.D., where there is trouble in utopia. Can he and his motley followers save this golden world from the Programmed Persons, and the soulless perfection they have engineered? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The survival of faith itself is at stake in this thrilling, uncategorizable, wildly inventive first novel--but the adventure is more than one of ideas. As astonishingly as Philip K. Dick and other visionaries of the 1960s new wave, Lafferty turns the conventions of space-opera science fiction upside-down and inside-out. Here are fractured allegories, tales-within-tales, twinkle-in-the-eye surprises, fantastic byways, and alien subjectivities that take one's breath away. Neil Gaiman has described Lafferty \"a genius, an oddball, a madman\"; Gene Wolfe calls him \"our most original writer.\" Long-hailed by insiders and now with an introduction by Andrew Ferguson as well as unpublished omitted passages included in the notes, \u003ci\u003ePast Master\u003c\/i\u003e deserves to perplex and delight a wider audience.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Library of America\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/24\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781598536461\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 247\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.40h x 4.70w x 0.50d","brand":"R. A. Lafferty","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44507354529973,"sku":"9781598536461","price":14.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_da5c3b0a-3452-4bb9-bf0e-c12b2cbd7f8d.jpg?v=1722311915","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/past-master-9781598536461","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}