Life Is but a Dream: A Novel of Science Fiction and Fantasy - Softcover

Stringham, Shand

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1663269483 ISBN 13: 9781663269485

Publisher: Iuniverse, 2024

Synopsis

America was beset with a widespread polio epidemic in thelate 1940s and early 1950s. Milton Jeffries, was diagnosedwith the disease in his early teens, when it became evidentfrom his coughing and difficulty breathing, that the diseasewas advanced and life-threatening. His mother rushed himto a polio treatment facility, where he spent the next severalyears stretched out in an iron lung. Many polio victims of thatera spent the greater portion of their lives in iron lungs – Manyof them never escaped. Milton was one of the luckier ones.This is his story of how he ultimately broke free from his ironprison to travel to a lunar base on the far side of the moonwhere construction on an intergalactic space ark was underway.Evidence from the ruins of an ancient alien space ship that hadcrashed in the distant past revealed the startling truth – We arenot the first to visit the moon!

Edition details

• Publisher: Iuniverse
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1663269483
• ISBN 13: 9781663269485
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 134