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McCay

Thierry Smolderen author Jean-Phillipe Bramanti illustrator

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Titan Books Ltd

Published:20th Nov '18

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

McCay cover

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...

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

ISBN: 9781785868856

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 567g

232 pages