The Dream of Perpetual Motion

By Dexter Palmer
(Picador USA, Paperback, 9780312680534, 356pp.)

Publication Date: February 2011

Other Editions of This Title: Google eBook, Hardcover, Compact Disc, Compact Disc, MP3 CD

Categories: Science Fiction - General

Selected by Indie Booksellers for the March 2010 Indie Next List

“Dexter Palmer's debut work is an absolutely enchanting novel with elements of steampunk and alternate history, loosely constructed around the plot of Shakespeare's ^The Tempest^. It's a powerful story and I can't wait to see what he writes next.”

-- Bridget Allison, Phoenix Books, Essex, VT

Description

Imprisoned for life aboard a zeppelin that floats high above a fantastic metropolis, greeting-card writer Harold Winslow pens his memoirs. His only companions are the disembodied voice of Miranda Taligent, the only woman he has ever loved, and the cryogenically frozen body of her father, Prospero, the genius and industrial magnate who drove her insane. As Harold heads toward a last desperate confrontation with Prospero to save Miranda's life, he finds himself an unwitting participant in the creation of the greatest invention of them all: the perpetual motion machine. Beautifully written, stunningly imagined, and wickedly funny, "The Dream of Perpetual Motion" is a heartfelt meditation on the place of love in a world dominated by technology.

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