En Hollywood la mentira, el engaño y la ostentación son moneda corriente, pero se diría que el director de culto Leander Starr es capaz de engatusar al mismísimo diablo. Sin embargo, los años no pasan en balde ni siquiera para un genio como él, y aunque el público sigue siendo misericordioso, sus ex mujeres y el fisco estadounidense terminan por perder la paciencia. Como otros grandes directores, decide fugarse a México, donde se propone rodar...

Un niño de diez años queda huérfano en la poco edificante América de mil novecientos veinte y es puesto bajo la potestad de una dama excéntrica, obsesionada por estar 'à la page', vital, caprichosa, seductora y adorable. Junto a ella, pasará los siguientes treinta años en una espiral incesante de fiestas, amores, aventuras y diversos golpes de fortuna. El lector, atónito, suspendido entre la fascinación de advertir muchos de los risibles...

In order to fully, appreciate this book you need to read the previous books in the Shonak Series. The Shonakians are a simple, placid race of people but so different from us that a great deal of background is, provided in the first book, The Crown of Happenstance. The book introduces the three main protagonists in the book; Bon of Shonak, Itself the over spirit of the "Six Earths", and Atsa, a proto-Hopi and all around honest, caring, spiritual human,...

Although it can stand alone, in order to fully, appreciate the stories in this book, you really should read the previous books in the Shonak Series. These earlier books inform the reader about the Shonakians and their relationship with Earth. They are a very different race of people on an alternate version of our planet who have a very complex relationship with us and have had for many thousands of years. Most of that time, we knew nothing about them,...

A curious time shift takes Bon and his planet, Shonak, on an expedition into the nature of Time itself. It also sets the stage for open interaction between Shonak and Earth, which until the "shift" was the Earth of 1000 BCE. Suddenly, inexplicably, Earth was thrust forward in time by 3210 years. Now a modern, technical world, Shonak can finally relate to the people and can have an open relationship with them. While the time shift on Earth was indisputable,...

This is a story about alternative science, spirituality, and world history. On its surface, it is a story about a search for something that may or may not even exist, and the different people, from different realities, who are trying to find it. How they interact and how they go about their search carries that part of the story but there are other threads of stories in the mix, too. First is another version of Earth, known to its people as Shonak,...