An A-Z of Possible Worlds (PDF)
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If you could travel through your mind what would you find? Ever been stuck on a stuffy train carriage and let your thoughts wander, making up imaginary stories about the people you are sitting next to? An A-Z Of Possible Worlds, inspired by several such...
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If you could travel through your mind what would you find? Ever been stuck on a stuffy train carriage and let your thoughts wander, making up imaginary stories about the people you are sitting next to? An A-Z Of Possible Worlds, inspired by several such journeys, is a box set of 26 interlinking short stories, each seasoned with the unexpected and absurd. They are stories for people who wish to journey around the mind and go somewhere that does not exist.
A.C. Tillyer’s ‘countries’ are an assortment of light and dark witty tales, mixed with a healthy amount of satire and relevance to the contemporary world. Tillyer provides enjoyable escapes from otherwise monotonous journeys, transporting the reader to worlds where a city of idealists try to build the perfect ship, or a golf course where only robots can play, discovering an archipelago where an entire race are burying themselves alive or, aptly, a rail network where passengers can get lost forever. Generally speaking, novels tend to focus on the individual characters as protagonists, whereas A.C. Tillyer turns that around and makes the crowd the central character of her stories to see what happens when people follow the herd.
A.C. Tillyer’s ‘countries’ are an assortment of light and dark witty tales, mixed with a healthy amount of satire and relevance to the contemporary world. Tillyer provides enjoyable escapes from otherwise monotonous journeys, transporting the reader to worlds where a city of idealists try to build the perfect ship, or a golf course where only robots can play, discovering an archipelago where an entire race are burying themselves alive or, aptly, a rail network where passengers can get lost forever. Generally speaking, novels tend to focus on the individual characters as protagonists, whereas A.C. Tillyer turns that around and makes the crowd the central character of her stories to see what happens when people follow the herd.
Autoren-Porträt von A.C. Tillyer
Anne’s inspiration for writing An A-Z Of Possible Worlds came from being stuck on trains! As a daughter of trainspotter, she grew up spending a copious amount of time on trains and began to wonder what the other passengers were like and where they lived. As ideas emerged Anne would capture them in novella form and soon she become absorbed in these make-believe ‘countries’. From this the design for An A-Z Of Possible Worlds grew, fitting with the timetables and maps associated with travelling and train journeys. Anne’s background is largely in film and she has an HND in Audio Visual Design from Central Manchester College and an MA in Film Studies from the University of Westminster. Anne found her inspiration from the early Soviet silent films and from that discovered her talent for editing. Some of the programmes which Anne has worked on as a film editor include ‘The Great Nazi Cash Swindle’ which aired on Channel 4, the story of how a group of Jewish prisoners survived the Holocaust by assisting the Nazis in forging British currency, and a BBC 2 programme called ‘Darcey Bussell: Britain’s Ballerina’ which was a bio-documentary looking at her career which was broadcast on Christmas day.
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- Autor: A.C. Tillyer
- 2009, Englisch
- ISBN-10: 190689406X
- ISBN-13: 9781906894061
- Erscheinungsdatum: 21.10.2009
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