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Get ready for a dizzying dive into the "McCay Dimension" with this true and false tribute to the undisputed master of the imagination. McCay is an invented biography chronicling authentic - though only partially true - stories of the life of the future creator of Little Nemo, Winsor McCay - in which McCay's life is enriched by an imaginary encounter with British mathematician and science fiction writer Charles Hinton. Hinton, as a mathematician and philosopher, postulates the existence of a fourth spatial dimension - and seeks an artist capable of representing it, one with an innate sense of perspective and a limitless imagination. In Winsor McCay, Hinton finds such a man, and when their imaginations combine, an entirely new world opens up to them both...

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A Hardback by Thierry Smolderen, Jean-Phillipe Bramanti

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    Publisher: Titan Books Ltd
    Publication Date: 20/11/2018
    ISBN13: 9781785868856, 978-1785868856
    ISBN10: 1785868853

    Description

    Book Synopsis
    Get ready for a dizzying dive into the "McCay Dimension" with this true and false tribute to the undisputed master of the imagination. McCay is an invented biography chronicling authentic - though only partially true - stories of the life of the future creator of Little Nemo, Winsor McCay - in which McCay's life is enriched by an imaginary encounter with British mathematician and science fiction writer Charles Hinton. Hinton, as a mathematician and philosopher, postulates the existence of a fourth spatial dimension - and seeks an artist capable of representing it, one with an innate sense of perspective and a limitless imagination. In Winsor McCay, Hinton finds such a man, and when their imaginations combine, an entirely new world opens up to them both...

    Trade Review
    "A brain-bending book ... peculiarly compelling" - SciFi Now

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