The Dream of Perpetual Motion

Author: Dexter Palmer

A debut so magical… so extraordinary… it has to be read to be believed….Imprisoned for life aboard a zeppelin that floats high above a fantastic metropolis, the greeting-card writer Harold Winslow pens his memoirs. His only companions are the disembodied voice of Miranda Taligent, the only woman he has ever loved, and the cryogenically frozen body of her father Prospero, t….Read More

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