NATIONAL BESTSELLER
NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE
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From New York Times bestselling author Alan Moore-one of the most
influential writers in the history of comics-"a wonderful collection,
brilliant and often moving" (Neil Gaiman) which takes us to the
fantastical underside of reality.**
In his first-ever short story collection, which spans forty years of
work, Alan Moore presents a series of wildly different and equally
unforgettable characters who discover--and in some cases even make and
unmake--the various uncharted parts of existence.
In "A Hypothetical Lizard," two concubines in a brothel of fantastical
specialists fall in love with tragic ramifications. In "Not Even
Legend," a paranormal study group is infiltrated by one of the
otherworldly beings they seek to investigate. In "Illuminations," a
nostalgic older man decides to visit a seaside resort from his youth and
finds the past all too close at hand. And in the monumental novella
"What We Can Know About Thunderman," which charts the surreal and
Kafkaesque history of the comics industry's major players over the last
seventy-five years, Moore reveals the dark, beating heart of the
superhero business.
From ghosts and otherworldly creatures to theoretical Boltzmann brains
fashioning the universe at the big bang, Illuminations is exactly
that--a series of bright, startling tales from a contemporary legend
that reveal the full power of imagination and magic.
