Title: Strange Telescopes: Following the Apocalypse from Moscow to Siberia
Author: Daniel Kalder
Publisher: Overlook Press
Release Date: May 14, 2009
Sometimes you don’t have to go as far as the science fiction section to find stories of alternate realities. Sometimes you just have to know where to look right here on Earth. Strange Telescopes takes the reader into Post-Soviet Russia, where some people have constructed realities that are, as the adage goes, stranger than fiction. Kalder writes of his travels and experiences with four such people: a Digger in Moscow, a man examining exorcisms in the Ukraine, a man who has proclaimed himself Christ re-incarnate and the voice of God in Siberia, and a modern gangster building a wooden skyscraper.
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