the living a warm bodies novel isaac marion

His face is pimpled, his mustache is thin, and he and his friend are about to burn down Denver.

We read our own books and learn from ourselves. It gathers in the books in our Library it builds like magma beneath our mountain. It trails behind us like bubbles as we rise through the depths of time. So we sit patiently in the vehicle of the present, traveling toward some unguessable tomorrow.Īnd we carry the past with us. We evolved consciousness to learn and to know, and for that we must focus. We are not bound by time, but we choose to live in it. From the bright cloud of our vastness we grow fingers to dip in cool water, to run through soft grass, to touch our skin and fur and feathers and somehow, from the sum of our myriad bodies, begin to understand what we are. Flesh is an experience we choose to have. I can only hope that the dark parts of this imaginary future aren’t the only ones that come true. But fact is catching up to fiction with alarming speed. I was observing the patterns around me and speculating on where we might end up if we keep following them. This was never meant to be a “political book.” I wasn’t commenting on specific public figures or current events-those events hadn’t happened yet. There are elements that I wrote as morbid fantasy that have edged uncomfortably close to fact, to the point of feeling obvious or even exploitative. This book is being published in 2018, but I finished writing it in 2015. Jacket design by Jeff Miller at Faceout Studios

Interior illustrations adapted by Isaac Marion from sources in the public domain. Lyrics quoted from “Livin’ Man” by Henri Lanoë, from the Twilight Zone episode “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.” Knopf, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. New York, NY from Gilgamesh: A Verse Narrative by Herbert Mason, copyright © 1998, Used by permission of Alfred A. For information, contact the author at: 978-1-93 Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, Living or Dead, is entirely coincidental.Īll rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form whatsoever. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously.

The living a warm bodies novel isaac marion