Volume Black of the Mind Over Matter Trilogy, A Metafictional Fugue on Minds and Machines
Say you're the Savior, Fred Christ. Would you want your frozen head to be reaninmated in 1984?
The world is going all to hell. War looms. Earthquakes happen with increasing regularity; weather patterns are awry; birds are in the water, fish in the air. Old ways wither; old languages are lost as the memories of their last surviving speakers disolve like cobwebs. Something rotten this way comes.
Governments collapse around the globe, leaving only The Party to rule over all.
In a prison cell, a madman spins theories of the mind, conjuring his own freedom. In cars and bars and shopping malls, proles obediently obey the jaded dictates of Big Brother, Ronald Reagan and Oliver North that emanate from the irony machine they call the telescreen. In a subzero laboratory, a scientist stares at an imprisoned god. And in a lonely bare room in a vast and nearly empty monastery, a young novice studies and prays and contemplates the idea of simple goodness, trying to comprehend chaos. For which his only reward will be the pure torment of The Pains.
In a world that's part Orwell, part Cheney, and part who knows what, a holy man tries to find a way to give meaning to his suffering, and perhaps thereby save us all.
Cheeseburger Brown, the creator of Simon of Space brings, brings this universe to life with twelve vivid illustrations.
