Greg Fisher finds a pair of glasses in his apartment that, he discovers during a fit of existential boredom, allows him to travel through paintings to alternate realities. It stops being fun and games, though, after Greg jumps into a German expressionist painting and lands in a totalitarian world governed by Ceausescu, who rules by means of mind-control hats. Ceausescu's soldiers start taking over other worlds, including ours. Greg and an alternate-world researcher, a painter so afraid of cults that he has people fill out a questionnaire before he'll talk to them, a man who lives by finding change on the sidewalk, a woman prone to lightning strikes, and a biologist must save all the worlds affected by Ceausescu. Their successful strategy is brilliant, but it comes almost too late, for the mind-control devices have spread throughout most human-populated worlds and have followed Greg and company to a world on which giant squids compete over the best eggplant recipe. Full of spectacularly odd worlds; frantic, bumbling adventure; and triumphant world-saving. Regina Schroeder

Book details

• Format Paperback
• Pages272 pages
• LanguageEnglish
• ISBN100966103912
• ISBN139780966103915