<div>The World Fantasy Award&ndash;winning author of Doctor Rat offers &ldquo;an entertaining trip through an exotic future&rdquo; as the rich and powerful pursue immortality (Booklist). Deep in the bowels of Junk Moon, the finest scientists of Planet Immortal are nearing completion of Project Amphora, which aims to unlock the secret of life everlasting. The Project is run by the Consortium, twelve of the planet&rsquo;s most influential movers and shakers, but they aren&rsquo;t the only ones after immortality. Commander Jockey Oldcastle, a wise-cracking space pirate, has heard about the Amphora Project from a banished scientist who is convinced it will lead to the end of the world. Oldcastle sets off to find the project, only to find himself unraveling a strange mystery: It seems the Amphora Project is turning the citizens of Planet Immortal into crystal. As time runs out, it is up to Oldcastle, his botanist partner Link&mdash;and Link&rsquo;s exotic, unlikely love interest&mdash;to stop an extradimensional enemy before their world is lost forever. The Amphora Project &ldquo;twists along at breakneck pace&rdquo;, combining elements of science fiction and fantasy while transcending the boundaries of both (Publishers Weekly). &ldquo;Full of weird tech and plenty of heroics and adventure in the company of bizarre creatures.&rdquo; &mdash;Booklist</div>

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<div>In this &ldquo;psychological mind bender,&rdquo; a Kafkaesque crisis of identity transports a famous actor from 1980s Hollywood to Nazi Germany (The Washington Post). At forty-five, Hollywood film star David Caspian should be basking in his success. Instead, his career is souring as he stresses over the next generation of actors eager to replace him. Losing himself in waking fantasies, David slips through a crack in time, awakening in the back alleys of Hitler&rsquo;s Berlin. He is no longer David Caspian. He has become Felix, a ruthless black marketeer. With the Gestapo closing in on him, David races against time&mdash;and space&mdash;as he fights to take control of Felix before Felix takes control of him. Witty, macabre, and utterly thrilling, The Exile is a mesmerizing novel that will leave readers wondering where reality ends and fiction begins. People wrote that when William Kotzwinkle &ldquo;is the author, readers can be sure only that the book in question will be different from everything else.&rdquo; But even among the award-winning author&rsquo;s work, this bracing satire stands out for the sweep of its vision, full of &ldquo;comedy, despair, horror and technical storytelling delight&rdquo; (The New York Times Book Review). &ldquo;The book becomes glued to the reader&rsquo;s hands as the devastating climactic scenes pile one on another. . . . Powerful writing.&rdquo; &mdash;The Washington Post Book World </div>

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The Exile

<div>This World Fantasy Award winner in the vein of Animal Farm delves into a lab worthy of a mad Nazi scientist&mdash;but run by a brilliantly sadistic rodent. In the annals of American literature, there has never been a character quite like Doctor Rat, PhD. From one of the most indispensable storytellers in speculative fiction, this biting satire introduces a narrator of learned charm and humor, and a twisted logic that is absolutely chilling. Doctor Rat is a credit to his species. A survivor of the most refined scientific experiments, now removed from the maze, he has become a valued and productive member of the academic community. When he must administer a lethal dose, he comforts his fellow rats with his compassionate slogan: &ldquo;Death is freedom.&rdquo; But everything changes when animals worldwide begin to rebel, refusing to accept their proper places in the natural order of things: as test subjects, pets, or food. And only Doctor Rat has the courage to defend mankind from the ungrateful animal kingdom. Hailed by the Los Angeles Times as &ldquo;dazzlingly original&rdquo; and &ldquo;occasionally quite beautiful,&rdquo; Doctor Rat is a sly and stylish indictment of fanaticism in mice and men. &ldquo;A truly imaginative impresario . . . [Doctor Rat] teases your conscience with educated wit and versatile improvisation, not to mention the casual flick of the tail about to be cut off.&rdquo; &mdash;Kirkus Reviews </div>

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<div>From the award-winning legend of speculative fiction, &ldquo;a witty sendup of the detective story&rdquo; with &ldquo;a richness of invention that doffs a hat to Dickens&rdquo; (Chicago Tribune). At a fashionable salon, Parisians line up to have their fortunes told by Ric Lazare&rsquo;s amazing machine. The predictions arrive with unerring accuracy, as if the invention were imbued with some sort of wondrous sorcery. The police, however, have a different opinion. They suspect that Lazare is a con man. Accordingly, they&rsquo;ve sent one of their own to investigate. Unfortunately, the man they send is Paul Picard. His methods are unconventional. His appetites&mdash;for lemon tarts, and for prostitutes&mdash;are legendary. And he is no stranger to the dark side of Paris. But Inspector Picard is entirely unprepared for the string of murders that pulls him across the continent. As the killer&rsquo;s seductive knot tightens around him, he learns once and for all that there&rsquo;s more to the glimmering world of high society than first appears. Winner of the World Fantasy Award for his novel Doctor Rat, William Kotzwinkle reaffirms his reputation as one of the most captivating and original American authors of the last half-century with this &ldquo;elegant entertainment&rdquo; of magic and mystery in Paris (The Washington Post). &ldquo;Gaudy, decadent, smoothly polished, this beguiling novel is . . . a feat of stage magic, well rehearsed and well performed by a fine craftsman.&rdquo; &mdash;The New Yorker &ldquo;Alternately dark and glittering . . . a first-rate vaudeville turn.&rdquo; &mdash;Chicago Tribune &ldquo;Pure magic.&rdquo; &mdash;Playboy </div>

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Books By William Kotzwinkle (4 Books)

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