A collaboration so improbable , it could have come from alternate history : Tim Kring , creator of TV ’s Heroes , is teaming up with Dale Peck , the literary author and critic best known for calling Rick Moody the worst writer of his propagation . Their trilogy will be an alternating history / science fable story that starts in the sixties and black market to the cheeseparing futurity . And , as you might wait from Kring , it involves unearthly great power . The nameless serial joins a newfangled vogue for literary alt - story .
In Kring and Peck ’s trilogy , a man name Chandler Forrest take part in LSD experiments administered by the CIA in the 1960s , and gains strange ability . Given the fact that the book span four or five decades , you may expect it to be sort of sprawl and involve scores of intricate conspiracies . Besides trash Rick Moody ( and David Foster Wallace , and Jonathan Franzen ) Peck is best know for the 1993 AIDS novel Martin and John . His most recent novel , The Garden Of Lost and Found , was about a Midwesterner who motivate to New York , but you ca n’t read it because it got withdrawn in the Wake Island of the closure of Carroll & Graf when parent company Avalon change hands .
alternating history , formerly the preserve of literary genre source like Harry Turtledove , has been gaining a new currency in late years . Philip Roth ’s The Plot Against America explore an substitute World War II where Charles Lindbergh depone FDR . And Resistance by Owen Sheers also explores a WWII where things went otherwise , in this subject a version where the Nazis overrun Russia and take over one-half of Britain . And of track , Michael Chabon ’s The Yiddish Policemen ’s Union take place in an Alaska that became the new Jewish homeland .
The other interesting thing about the Kring / Peck business deal with Crown was how they sell the book : they only had 25 pages of fabric ( presumably admit an abstract ) and a video recording poke that editor in chief had to sign onto a password - protected Web site to watch . It ’s become common practice for author to make video trailers for novels once they ’re publish , but I ’ve never heard of author selling a book to a publishing house using a telecasting . The future of publishing ? [ Observer ] Acid day book artwork by Trevor Brown .
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