The Dramatis Personae

Over twenty incredible, exclusive stories from the past, present, and future lives of Nathan Coppedge: the text includes two sections. The first section is called 'The Self, ' and is devoted to Nathan Coppedge's interesting incarnations as a 'cave boy, ' 'the urchin of Ur, ' one of the Eight Chinese Immortals, the Egyptian god of Astonishment, the burner of the Library of Alexandria, the inventor of the book, a child who names himself the end of humanity, Pippin son of William Tell, Pharisee the Fakir, Marie d' Antoinette, the spy Aaron Burr, the self-made Rip Van Winkl, someone who believed himself to be Euler, a homeless bum named the Burgher King, a soul inside a super-computer, Eucaleh or Nathan Coppedge and a number of quasi-devilish future lives. Section Two is called 'Others, ' and is devoted to a variety of personalities which Coppedge feels influenced history---all of them concocted with a faculty for creative invention. This is alternate history-in-the-making, all from the standpoint of a self-described 'potential novelist.' Coppedge is something of a genius, and these stories stand out for their color and realism, in spite of the ma