DREAM OF VENUS (OR LIVING PICTURES), a novel set in the 1939 New York World's Fair, is a speculative history reanimating the last great international fair this world would ever know. Meshing actualities with invention, DREAM OF VENUS renders a future past that is nostalgic and predictive, an account of hope and longing at the onset of World War II. Focusing on Zeke Lichtenquist - -an artist moved into the Fair's Town of Tomorrow -- VENUS takes us on a search for authenticity and meaning. Franklin Roosevelt, Albert Einstein, New York Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, and the Fair's president Grover...
DREAM OF VENUS (OR LIVING PICTURES), a novel set in the 1939 New York World's Fair, is a speculative history reanimating the last great international ...
Americans have long been comfortable turning their quite human founders into mythic figures. As a result almost everything you read about folks like Washington, Adams and especially Jefferson is not true, it is mythic. I tried to so the same for a man named Bill Richmond. So not everything in my book may be true, but trust me, not every fact in your books are true either. Read about the great Bill Richmond. He is worthy.
Americans have long been comfortable turning their quite human founders into mythic figures. As a result almost everything you read about folks like W...
