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Xyzt by Kristen Alvanson (2019, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherUrbanomic

ISBN-101916405231

ISBN-139781916405233

eBay Product ID (ePID)8038671284

Product Key Features

Book TitleXyzt

Number of Pages328 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicLiterary, Science Fiction / General

Publication Year2019

GenreFiction

AuthorKristen Alvanson

Book SeriesUrbanomic / K-Pulp Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight10.8 Oz

Item Length7.7 in

Item Width5.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2019-299932

Dewey Edition23

Series Volume Number2

Dewey Decimal813/.6

SynopsisGenre-defying fiction that accelerates "cross-cultural dialogue" into a kaleidoscopic rush of sensory estrangements, fairy tales, and alien encounters. "There's really no difference between us and them, so we're told...." Based on the author's experiences of living as an American in Iran, Kristen Alvanson's XYZT is a wildly imaginative dramatization of the idea of a "dialogue of civilizations" and its potentially outlandish ramifications. As part of an advanced technological test program, volunteers are shuttled back and forth between the US and Iran, hidden from the watchful eyes of immigration police and state bureaucracies. Each is given a single opportunity to be received by a local host and to have a brief authentic experience of what it means to live as "them" before being transported back home. But far from heralding the bliss of mutual recognition, the experiment unleashes a series of displacements so disorienting that the fabric of reality begins to fray. Ordinary people become entangled in extraordinary situations, and everyday life bleeds into mythological encounters, alternate universes and dark psychedelic journeys in alien lands where the real and the imaginary are indistinguishable. A treasury of tales told from multiple perspectives and in a multiplicity of styles, XYZT is an audacious cross-genre experiment, a firsthand memoir of what it means to see what "they" see, and a science-fictional, nonstandard engagement with anthropology in which cross-cultural encounters take on all the unpredictable features of a contemporary fairy tale.

LC Classification NumberPS3601