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Merge
Walter Mosley’s talent knows no bounds. Merge and Disciple are but two of six fragments in the Crosstown to Oblivion short novels in which Mosley entertainingly explores life’s cosmic questions. From life’s meaning to the nature of good and evil, these tales take us on speculative journeys beyond the reality we have come to know. In each tale someone in our world today is given insight into these long pondered mysteries. But how would the world really receive the answers? MergeRaleigh Redman loved Nicci Charbon until she left him heartbroken. Then he hit the lotto forÌýtwenty-four million dollars, quit his minimum wage job and set his sights on one reading the entire collection of lectures in the Popular Educator Library, the only thing his father left behind after he died. As Raleigh is trudging through the eighth volume, he notices something in his apartment that at first seems ordinary but quickly reveals itself to be from a world very different from our own. This entity shows Raleigh joy beyond the comforts of twenty-four million dollarsâ€�.and merges our world with those that live beyond.ÌýDiscipleHogarth “Trentâ€� Tryman is a forty-two-year-old man working a dead-end data entry job. Though he lives alone and has no real friends besides his mother, he’s grown quite content in his quiet life, burning away time with television, the internet, and video games. That all changes the night he receives a bizarre instant message on his computer from a man who calls himself Bron. At first he thinks it’s a joke, but in just a matter of days Hogarth Tryman goes from a data-entry clerk to the head of a corporation. His fate is now in very powerful hands as he realizes he has become a pawn in a much larger game with unimaginable stakes—a battle that threatens the prime life force on Earth.ÌýAt the publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management software (DRM) applied.
288 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 13, 2012
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Walter Mosley
174Ìýbooks3,729ÌýfollowersWalter Mosley (b. 1952) is the author of the bestselling mystery series featuring Easy Rawlins, as well as numerous other works, from literary fiction and science fiction to a young adult novel and political monographs. His short fiction has been widely published, and his nonfiction has appeared in the New York Times Magazine and the Nation, among other publications. Mosley is the winner of numerous awards, including an O. Henry Award, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, a Grammy, and PEN America’s Lifetime Achievement Award. He lives in New York City.
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August 11, 2018
This read is OK. Great writing skills of course it’s Mosley. I was interesting in the first half but not necessarily caring towards the end. This is my 40th Mosley read and this is going to HURT Mi to do so but it’s my first 3star Mosley bookðŸ¤
June 17, 2024
Not a terrible novella from the writer best known for his detective stories, with this one delving into the science fiction realm, but it didn't satisfy me as much. I think I'll stay faithful to Easy Rawlins and his literary character brethren.
October 29, 2014
Walter Mosley is a marvelous author! His novels have me devouring his books one after the other.
October 9, 2018
Outstanding imagination in this SF morality tale. The aliens' planet's life reminded me of Ursula Le Guin's fantasy worlds.
January 23, 2014
This is Sci-if Mosley, and it is fascinating. A short novel but stocked with great ideas and fun twists. Highly recommended.
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