Set in the 1939-1940 New York World's Fair, Dream of Venus (or Living Pictures), is a speculative history reanimating the last great international fair this world would ever know. Meshing actualities with invention, it renders a future past that is nostalgic and predictive, an account of hope and longing at the onset of World War II. Focusing on Zeke Lichtenquist -- an artist moved into the Fair's Town of Tomorrow -- the book takes us on a search for authenticity and meaning. Franklin Roosevelt, Albert Einstein, New York ...
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Set in the 1939-1940 New York World's Fair, Dream of Venus (or Living Pictures), is a speculative history reanimating the last great international fair this world would ever know. Meshing actualities with invention, it renders a future past that is nostalgic and predictive, an account of hope and longing at the onset of World War II. Focusing on Zeke Lichtenquist -- an artist moved into the Fair's Town of Tomorrow -- the book takes us on a search for authenticity and meaning. Franklin Roosevelt, Albert Einstein, New York Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, and the Fair's president Grover Whalen all pop in and out, players in a fabled New York of the late 1930's.This work of cyber-fiction and alternative history has taken its title from Salvadore Dali's surrealistic pavilion featured at the fair.
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