Nu-Evermore

About the Book

THE CULTISH NOVEL ABOUT A "NEO-PRESENT" BREAKING FREE FROM A "FUTURE-PAST" ...

    Partly a sci-fi thrilller, NU-EVERMORE is a novel of suspense, intrigue, and philosophical content, with some fabulist satirical overtones. A strong story-line mostly in third-person sustains the plot throughout. It is inventive enough to bridge the gap between the small press and mainstream publishers of quality literary work ...
    Several major characters are noteworthy, such as young T.K. Keller, who provides a central viewpoint for the novel. In the year 2037, Keller is a young American expatriate, A.W.O.L. in Amsterdam from the U.S. Army, troublesomely enmeshed in terrorist activities. He's hoping to retrieve a friend's kidnapped little boy from European terrorists known as Der Feuer, or the Puma Band. The other major characters - such as T.K.'s mentor Raul Macon, the Joan of Arc-like Christina Alpreece, and the guerrilla German leader Gunther Hoffler - alternate in sharing focal viewpoints throughout plot development.
    For political purposes the terrorists abduct a prominent American businessman, Vincent Tomasi, a vital link for the Pumas attempting to discover the whereabouts of a controversial chemical toxin, the Medulla Raze, which supposedly paralyzes the intellectual faculties of soldiers in warfare. The surreal seach for the Raze throughout Germany, from military installations to forested feral caves, provides adventure in a literary vein also, as Keller and Macon match wits with the terrorists and Christina, a supernatural beauty. Their interactive struggles form the integral climax of the novel in chapters formally inventive and suspensefully entertaining, where the future remains elusively around a corner of curved space.
    In NU-EVERMORE, the future is indefinite and plagued by governmental interference, and political wars rule in an era of ultra-techno ambiguity, since extraterrestrial elements enter into the novel's time-frame (where past events in 20th Century history are revived for renewal in the 21st), and the world's weather is bizarrely locked in a neo-Ice Age making it imperative for the protagonists to succeed before the earth self-destructs.

About the Author

    Peter Magliocco, editor/writer/artist, was raised in Southern California, but has been editing the small press lit-zine, ART:MAG, out of Las Vegas, Nevada, since 1985.     His bio appears in the Marquis' WHO'S WHO IN AMERICA 2002.
    He works in the security field for a day job, but has worked in print shops, warehouses, & telemarketing boiler rooms. His short and long fictions have appeared both online in e-zines like COMRADES, THUNDERSANDWICH, NAKED POETRY, and SUSPECT THOUGHTS, and in print journals like THE ANGRY THOREAUAN and ART:MAG. His latest chapbook (ICED AMARANTH from Limited Editions Press, '01) collected several short stories & poems... He won first place in the 2001 Las Vegas CITY LIFE newspaper's poetry competition, and was also nominated for a Push Cart Prize in poetry. His poems & pen/ink drawings have also appeared in numerous international literary zines and journals...

To read interviews with the author please visit www.lasvegascitylife.com or www.booksandauthors.net