Born Again

By Lawson, Alfred

Book Id: WPLBN0002952807
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File Size: 224.09 MB
Reproduction Date: 2012

Title:	Born Again
Author:	Lawson, Alfred
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Fiction, Science fiction
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, Born Again
Historic Publication Date:	1904
Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


Citation APA MLA Chicago Lawson, B. A. (1904). Born Again. Retrieved from http://www.self.gutenberg.org/

Description
I doubt that anyone who reads [Born Again] will ever forget it: it is quite singularly bad, with long undigestible rants against the evils of the world, an impossibly idealistic Utopian prescription for the said evils, and - as you will have gathered - a very silly plot. - oddbooks.co.uk Alfred Lawson was a veritable Renaissance man: a professional baseball player, a luminary in the field of aviation, an outspoken advocate of vegetarianism and economic reform, and the founder of a pseudo-scientific crackpot philosophy called Lawsonomy. Born Again, his only novel, is a bizarre, delirious, and delightfully silly utopian science-fiction novel that lays the groundwork for the philosophy that would later dominate Lawson's life. It tells the story of John Convert, a wayward, seafaring soul (based loosely on Lawson, minus the conveniently symbolic initials) who is tossed overboard by his crewmen after a physical altercation. Convert awakens on an island inhabited by a race of superhuman giants -- called the Sagemen -- who slumber in their subterranean city. He then meets Arletta, a giantess who takes Convert on a journey that will change his life in ways too fantastically strange to imagine. (Introduction by ChuckW)

Summary
Electronic recorded live performance of a reading

Excerpt
Fiction, Science fiction, Adventure, Philosophy