Wolf Hall meets The Man in the High Castle in this mind-bending
science fiction classic, now presented in an authoritative new edition
from Library of America
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?
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and now with an introduction by Andrew Ferguson as well as unpublished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, Past Master deserves to
perplex and delight a wider audience.
