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A HUNDRED THOUSAND WORLDS
By: 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 agoβleaving 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 sonβand to the way the stories we create come to shape us.
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