Andrew Crumey's novels are renowned for their unique blend of science, history, philosophy and humour. Now he brings the same insight and originality to this story cycle whose title offers an ironic twist on the ancient doctrine of connectedness, the great chain of being. Here we find a blind man contemplating the light of an atom bomb, a musician disturbed by a conspiracy of radio waves, a visitor to Moscow caught up in a comic case of mistaken identity, a woman on a Greek island trying to become a different person. We range across time, from the Renaissance to a globally-warmed future, across light-years in search of hallucinogenic space-plankton, and into magical worlds of talking insects and bottled fire. Fans of Crumey's acclaimed novels will occasionally spot hints of themes and figures that have recurred throughout his fiction; readers new to his work will delight in finding subtle links within the pieces. Are they all part of some larger untold story? We have nothing to lose but the chains of our imagination: what lies beyond is a great change of being.
The Secret Knowledge
Andrew Crumey
bookBeethoven's Assassins
Andrew Crumey
bookThe Great Chain of Unbeing
Andrew Crumey
bookSputnik Caledonia
Andrew Crumey
bookMobius Dick
Andrew Crumey
bookMr Mee
Andrew Crumey
bookD'Alembert's Principle
Andrew Crumey
bookMusic, in a Foreign Language
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bookPfitz
Andrew Crumey
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The Great Chain of Unbeing
Andrew Crumey
bookFaster Than Light
John Lucas
bookMarket Farm
Nicholas Bradbury
bookThe Double Life of Daniel Glick
Maurice Caldera
bookTime of the Beast
Geoff Smith
bookThe Cat
Pat Gray
bookSentence Adjourned
Paul Genney
bookThe Political Map of the Heart
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bookWonders Will Never Cease
Robert Irwin
bookSputnik Caledonia
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bookBlood & Gold
Ivan Kanaris
bookThe Romeo & Juliet Killers
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