Lucian of Samosata

Lucian of Samosata—Syrian, satirist, and the most entertaining liar of the second century—wrote the first story that admitted it was fiction and reveled in it: a voyage to the Moon, complete with space battles. But his real life was as astonishing as anything he invented. Lucian of Samosata follows him from a stonecutter's apprenticeship on the Euphrates across the breadth of the Roman Empire—trading philosophies with Platonists, Stoics, Epicureans, and Christians, dodging what the empire's roads and seas throw at him, and showing, city by city, how a boy from the edge of the map became the man who taught the world to lie truthfully.

Words Apart

Change your language and you change your thoughts.

Karl Albrecht

The Sun City Cannabis Club

My collaboration with Jock McNeill, originally published under the pseudonym "Armentine Duryea," is beautifully printed and has been highly reviewed. It's also a book I'm quite proud of.

A Brief Future History

In The Abode Of Angels takes place in the year 2082, and it's based on the premise that the following events happened, which places it on a world that could have been ours had just one, seemingly small, event in 2008 played out differently.

The Lady From Heaven

You are alone in your cabin, about to eat the dinner you've just cooked. You take a bite—but the meal is cold. You return it to the oven, but that's cold, too. You check the clock, and then, in rising panic, the telephone operator. The answer is the same: somehow, two days have disappeared, and you have no idea where they went. Your only clue: on your leg, a new, blood-red scar.