Letters from the Flesh
Marcos Donnelly
Fiction / Science Fiction / General
192 • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4"
ISBN 0–88995–302–3 cloth CDN 26.95 • USA 19.95

Letters from the Flesh, the second book by new SF novelist Marcos Donnelly, sets a breathtaking pace, tackling far–reaching themes like evolution, fundamentalism, quantum realities, and the very core of human nature. The novel is a fictional collection of two sets of letters united by a single secret, but separated by two thousand years:

• the first–century epistles of a non–physical alien entrapped in the body of St. Paul the Apostle, accidentally triggering the birth of Christianity;

• the emails of microbiologist Dr. Lillian Oberland, a young college adjunct writing to her cousin Michael, a public school biology teacher facing the wrath of Creationist parents.

The letters reveal a relationship far deeper than passing coincidences—and signal that cousin Michael's unexpected conversion to fundamentalism might have interspecies consequences that cross the millennia.

Reviews
"A biting and highly entertaining intellectual delight."
–SF Weekly

"A compelling reading experience. . . . Those who can embrace Donnelly's inspired use of religious backdrop will find two genuinely personal stories that offer unexpected revelations."
–scifidimension.com

"An unexpected delight."
–Locus Magazine