Traveling In Space - Softcover

Leiva, Steven Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0615478506 ISBN 13: 9780615478500

Verlag: Bluroof Press, 2011

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Reseña del editor:

A unique first contact novel from the aliens' point-of-view; a 21st Century "Gulliver's Travels" with Homo sapiens as the Lilliputians.PRAISE FOR STEVEN PAUL LEIVA AND "TRAVELING IN SPACE""Steven Leiva not only promises, but delivers!" --Ray Bradbury"Leiva’s immense gifts are matched only by his wry, biting wit" -- Paul Provenza; author of "¡Satiristas!" director of "The Aristocrats," host of Showtime's "The Green Room with Paul Provenza.""Wry humor, intellectual insight and terrific story telling are the consistent signatures of Leiva's work." -- Ken Kragen, legendary Hollywood producer/manager"This book is bloody brilliant!" -- Nate, "NoMoreCrazyPeople" on the Rational Response Squad Forum-- -- -- -- -- -- -- --The last thing the factfinders -- who call themselves Life -- expected to find while traveling in space in "The Curious" on a mission from their planet, The Living World, was other life. But one day they stumble upon the third planet out from a backwater sun and find it teeming with a vast diversity of life in- cluding one sentient and cognizant, if primitive, species that they dub: Otherlife.Being not only from "The Curious" but inherently curious themselves, they begin to study the Otherlife and their alien culture, discovering such strange things as: marriage, intoxicating drinks, weapons of minor and mass destruction, the gleeful inhaling of toxic substances, two-parent families, layered language, genocide, non-nude bathing, and -- the strangest thing of all -- religion.This first contact between Life and Otherlife, disconcerting for both, has moments of humor and moments of horror -- and neither escape the encounter unchanged.

Biografía del autor:

STEVEN PAUL LEIVA has toiled for many years in the hills and valleys of Hollywood as a producer and writer for film, stage, and special events. He writes the occasional essay for The Los Angeles Times and for the award-winning LAtimes.com blog, "The Hero Complex." Steven produced the animation for "Space Jam," pairing the witty Bugs Bunny with the sweaty Michael Jordan. His first two published novels, the satiric Hollywood-based thrillers "Blood is Pretty: The First Fixxer Adventure" and "Hollywood is an All-volunteer Army: The Second Fixxer Adventure," featured his mysterious hero, The Fixxer. His stage play, "Made on the Moon," had its world premiere at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and has been performed in America by such actors as Paul Provenza, Robert Picardo and John Billingsley. Steven directed a special reading of Ray Bradbury's one-act play, "The Better Part of Wisdom," starring James Cromwell, for Ray Bradbury Week in Los Angeles as part of the literary master's 90th birthday celebrations. Steven lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Amanda, and his daughter, Miranda. You can contact the author at Firstfixxer@aol.com. Illustrator Todd Cronin is an animator and illustrator who has worked on projects for Dreamworks, Warner Brothers, Universal, and Disney. He illustrated the cover for Steven Paul Leiva's previous book, "Hollywood is an All-Volunteer Army." Todd lives in Gilbert, Arizona with his wife Elizabeth and daughter Reese where he is writing and illustrating a children's graphic novel, Danforth. You can see more of Todd's work at: www.fishtoonzanimation.com

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• Verlag: Bluroof Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0615478506
• ISBN 13: 9780615478500
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 376