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Any Other World Will Do
Paperback
Science FictionGeneral Fiction
ISBN13: 9781938938580
Publisher: Top Five Books
Published: Aug 1 2021
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.87
Height: 0.79 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.25
Language: English
Awards: Benjamin Franklin Award, Benjamin Franklin Award
Any Other World Will Do presents an alien vision of Earth's possible future. It's a send-up of the genre that wraps its earnest warning in plausible deniability. -- Foreword Reviews
* 2022 Benjamin Franklin Award - Silver Winner *
In a chance encounter on the overnight train from Paris to Barcelona, Vikram Bhat stumbles across a promising new recruit. Miles Townsend, an 18-year-old kid running away from a past he' d just as soon forget, is drawn to the older Indian man, dazzled by Barcelona, and smitten with the Hotel Kashmir's bartender, Anna de Wit, a Surinamese grad student with a genius for languages and Vikram's first recruit.
Miles and Anna have no idea they're being recruited. They have no idea that Vikram is neither an Indian nor a man, or that he's a few thousand light-years from home. He has a lot of secrets, it turns out. But he means well. When a series of bad decisions reveals the fact that Vikram isn't the only one light-years from home-- and this other one does not mean well-- Miles and Anna become unwitting ambassadors to Vikram's world, a place where the locals haven't got their sh*t together any better than the people of Earth.
A unique coming-of-age story, Any Other World Will Do is inventive, irreverent science fiction, a wry commentary on the primal urge to flee our troubles and the romantic way we remember the journey.
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