The Definition of Luck: Or The Post-Modern Prometheus (THE WILD TRIP NOVELS) - Softcover

Leiva, Steven Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1735298549 ISBN 13: 9781735298542

Publisher: Magpie Press, 2022

Synopsis

Khadambi Kinyanjui, a 6-foot-five-Kenyan who grew up in London, is from a wealthy family. Joe Smith, quite a bit shorter, is a red-headed orphan who grew up with his Aunt Liz in a hole in the California desert. Both are brilliant scientists. One is a neurobiologist, the other an astronomer, who first meet in 2049 under the Tommy Trojan statue at the University of Southern California. They become the best of friends but a very odd couple. And yet, their brotherhood is more robust than most actual brothers.

Then tragedy strikes the pair. Death is near for one of them. What can fend it off? Can the mind, the self, be uploaded to some digital realm? Can one become more than a human and far less than an animal? Or will the fix be something unexpected and mysterious? Can this human survive? Can humanity? Can friendship?

PRAISE FOR STEVEN PAUL LEIVA
“Steven Leiva not only promises but delivers. Bravo!” — Ray Bradbury
“The author’s true strength is in storytelling.” — Ricky L. Brown, Amazing Stories Magazine
“Leiva has such a vivid imagination." — Stuart Nulman, Montreal Times
"Leiva is witty and engaging, stylistically striking." — Areyon Jolivette, The Daily Californian
“Steven Paul Leiva is a master wordsmith able to take on any genre or blend them.” — Jean Rabe, USA Today Bestselling Author.
“Leiva’s immense gifts for mystery and suspense are matched only by his wry biting wit.” — Paul Provenza; author of ¡Satiristas!

About this title

About the Author

Before publishing ten critically acclaimed novels, award-winning and Amazon Bestselling author Steven Paul Leiva spent over twenty years in the entertainment industry as a writer and producer. He worked with such talent as Academy Award-winning producer Richard Zanuck; director Ivan Reitman; literary legend and screenwriter Ray Bradbury, and Star Wars producer Gary Kurtz; He even lent his voice to the Academy Award shortlisted (placing in the top ten) animated short, The Indescribable Nth.
Leiva produced the animation for Space Jam, putting together an ad hoc animation studio for Warner Bros in three days over the phone.

During this time, he wrote novels and a play, Made on the Moon, which premiered at the 1996 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, receiving a four-star review from The Scotsman.
After Space Jam, Leiva decided to concentrate on writing novels. Since 2003, he has published ten novels, a novella, and a book of essays.

His work has been praised by literary great Ray Bradbury, Oscar-winning film producer Richard Zanuck, NY Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize finalist Diane Ackerman, and Star Trek actor John Billingsley, the greatest bookworm in Hollywood. He has received the Scribe Award from the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers.

Edition details

• Publisher: Magpie Press
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1735298549
• ISBN 13: 9781735298542
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 324