Featuring a cast of over 200 characters, the mise-en-abyme structure is sustained by a rich bricolage of subplots, among them the Nevada Test Site-born rivalry between a USAF Lieutenant Colonel and the German Marxist astrophysicist, Dr. I've been writing it since March of 2015 and with this publication of the first volume in 2023, volumes two and three are largely unfinished. It's a trope, sure, but one that has never been explored and drawn in its full poetic potency by cinema because of certain limitations of form and industry, one that I thought I might like to tackle in a serious way in a gigantic mega-novel. ![]() I was inspired by movies like The Brain that Wouldn't Die (1962), The Brain from Planet Arous (1957) , and Donovan's Brain (1953), which are all pretty campy looking back on them, but I thought there was this potent, untapped metaphor if one would use fiction to explore what exactly the consciousness of one of these villainous super-brains was like. The story is also my attempt to situate fully-developed characters believably within a schlocky 50s B science fiction plot. In the way it embellishes the implications of quantum physics in a narrative context, I consider my trilogy to be literature’s first true multiverse novel, existing as a superposition of ever-bifurcating and contradictory moments lived and relived within a greater web of experience that, I hope, cumulatively suggests the macro-/micro-cosmic nature of our own universe. Exactly eight years after the novel’s conception, the first volume of the Margie and the Atomic Brain trilogy is here.
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