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A Hundred Thousand Worlds
Bob Proehl
Viking
July 2016
On Sale: June 28, 2016
368 pages
ISBN: 0399562214
EAN: 9780399562211
Kindle: B016JPTMCQ
Hardcover / e-Book
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Fantasy | Science Fiction
Valerie Torrey took her son, Alex, and fled Los Angeles
six years ago—leaving both her role on a cult sci-fi TV
show and her costar husband after a tragedy blew their
small family apart. Now Val must reunite nine-year-old
Alex with his estranged father, so they set out on a road
trip from New York, Val making appearances at comic book
conventions along the way. As they travel west, encountering superheroes, monsters,
time travelers, and robots, Val and Alex are drawn into
the orbit of the comic-con regulars, from a hapless
twentysomething illustrator to a brilliant corporate
comics writer stuggling with her industry's old-school
ways to a group of cosplay women who provide a chorus of
knowing commentary. For Alex, this world is a magical
place where fiction becomes reality, but as they get
closer to their destination, he begins to realize that
the story his mother is telling him about their journey
might have a very different ending than he imagined. A knowing and affectionate portrait of the geeky
pleasures of fandom, A Hundred Thousand Worlds is also a
tribute to the fierce and complicated love between a
mother and son—and to the way the stories we create come
to shape us.
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