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"This has to be the weirdest book I've ever read . . . A combination of Edgar Rice Burroughs
and Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy . . . truly a head-trip."
-- Heartland Reviews
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This was not a range but a sea of mountaintops, broken stone cliffs in an endless trickle of trees. As the Lungfish swam up and down in billowing thrusts, the peaks seemed to slosh and break like waves. Mist and clouds splashed against Riggs' face. The sky grew dark with night's pale drape and in the distance a devil's pillar of storm scraped its hooves across the sunset.
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In search of a cure for the poison that is slowly killing him, Riggs Bombay, the boy who is not afraid of one single thing, sets off in a lung-shaped airship, his toxic hallucinations in tow. While navigating through physical, mental, and spiritual realms, Riggs discovers a most peculiar book, which drives his quest to the farthest reaches of the universe. There, despite the efforts of power-hungry scoundrels, eccentric philosophers, insatiable spirits, and creepy old men, Riggs must deliver the book into the hands of the one person in the cosmos who wants absolutely nothing to do with it! At once classic and innovative, this whirlwind fantasy is rich in myth, magic, and humor, underpinned by profound mathematical, psychological, and philosophical truths.
JOSH WAGNER has been writing ever since he could hold a pen. He was first published in Lost Worlds magazine at the age of seventeen. A self-taught computer systems and network administrator, he leapt at an opportunity to travel in India, where fantasy merged with reality to inspire the physical and spiritual landscapes of Periphery Stowe.
Here in his poetic first novel Wagner offers a whimsical glimpse into the source of our fears, and a wink to our longing for longevity. Obsessive characters and dazzling imagery span the eternal horizon of this charming fable, from one quiet mountain village to the infinite eye of the void somewhere on the periphery of Mister Stowe's imagination.
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