Synopses & Reviews
Karen Guerreri is an obscure writer of science fiction novels. She is half convinced that her invisibility-far from qualifying as a superpower in a world of mad-scientist villains-has simply left her alone and forgotten in the junk heap of literary black holes.
Her first attempt to write "real" books backfired with the unacclaimed Preternatural. In that book, she became confused as to whether she was creating the intergalactic jellyfish, which she was writing about, or if they were controlling her.
Karen addresses the question by writing a sequel and thus begins Preternatural Too: Gyre, quite possibly one of the most improbable follow-ups in history. Skipping in and out of this world and teetering on the edge of sanity itself, Gyre stands like the proverbial shout into the void, raising more questions in postmodern exploration than its predecessor.
Review
"An enormously challenging puzzle story about alien intervention in human affairs that mixes the self-referential angst of postmodernist fiction with a funny and knowing parody of the Star Trek industry. Ms. Bonanno's novel, for all its postmodern paraphernalia and homage to writers as dissimilar as Julian Jayes and Douglas Adams, is an audacious act of the imagination that goes far beyond the merely clever. She makes good on all her promises."-
The New York Times
Synopsis
Karen Guerreri is an obscure writer of science fiction novels. She is half convinced that her invisibility-far from qualifying as a superpower in a world of mad-scientist villains-has simply left her alone and forgotten in the junk heap of literary black holes.
Her first attempt to write "real" books backfired with the unacclaimed Preternatural. In that book, she became confused as to whether she was creating the intergalactic jellyfish, which she was writing about, or if they were controlling her.
Karen addresses the question by writing a sequel and thus begins Preternatural Too: Gyre, quite possibly one of the most improbable follow-ups in history. Skipping in and out of this world and teetering on the edge of sanity itself, Gyre stands like the proverbial shout into the void, raising more questions in postmodern exploration than its predecessor.
About the Author
Margaret Wander Bonanno is the author of the critically acclaimed
Preternatural and
Preternatural Too: Gyre. She lives in Santa Monica, California.