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The Star Rover

By: Jack London
Narrated by: Edgar Lloyd
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The Star Rover is a 1914 collection of science fiction short stories with the theme of reincarnation. It tells the story of Darrell Standing, an inmate of San Quentin’s death row. The narrator escapes the horror of prison life by withdrawing into altered states and the memory of past lives. Forming the body of the work, the accounts of these past lives are vivid but disconnected; a series of vignettes set in different ages and cultures. They include a desert island survival story, one which involves a Roman perspective on Christ, a tale of medieval Korea, and one which takes place in a prehistoric era. The narratives are dream-like and steeped in mysticism.

Public Domain (P)2020 Museum Audiobooks Anthologies & Short Stories Classics Fiction Genre Fiction Metaphysical & Visionary Science Fiction
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This is probably the book by Jack London that I have the hardest time with. Although it is well written and the stories are exciting, the overall theme is too philosophical and abstract for my little head.

Strange, philosophical and abstract book.

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