The Cusanus Game

An extraordinarily ambitious novel combining the best of the thriller, the historical novel, and detailed science fiction. . . . Outstanding. "L. E. Modesitt, Jr., New York Times bestselling author of The Imager Portfolio and the Recluce Saga" In this new novel, Wolfgang Jeschke again reflects magnificently on the nature of our pasts and futures. Always an ambitious, ironic writer who escapes the traps of triviality, this long awaited new work is no exception, presenting an unanswerable truth: so much of our present and future is shaped by the past--so much so that creative futures are overtaken and sink into pasts. George Zebrowski, Campbell Award-winning author of Brute Orbits An epic that combines the cerebral satisfactions of Umberto Eco's "The Name of the Rose" with a ripping, gripping, time-tripping vision of a near-future apocalypse. "James Morrow, Nebula Award-winning author and editor of the SFWA European Hall of Fame" Wolfgang Jeschke's "The Cusanus Game" brings us an insightful European writer of well known abilities. His sensibility reflects another way of looking at our future possibilities, and his crafty eye picks up matters American sf can miss. I recommend Jeschke because we need to see science fiction as a world literature, and he is one of its first rank practitioners. "Gregory Benford, New York Times bestselling co-author of Bowl of Heaven" A virtuoso performance, so complex and well constructed that it can stand beside the best time travel stories, a tour-de-force that turns artifice into high art. "Franz Rottensteiner, Science Fiction Writers, on "The King and the Dollmaker"" Philosophical fiction as well as science fiction, ambitious, challenging, the master-work of a long creative career. Tom Shippey, bestselling author of J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century One of the most important science fiction writers of Europe today. Michael Kandel, international award-winning translator of Stanislaw Lem"