![]() ![]() It's loosely autobiographical in its externals, but deeply so in the questions it examines. The Other is set in Seattle in the mid to late 20th century-my own milieu. I had only to tap into the vein of my adolescence to open the subterranean terrain where it had coalesced on its own. The Other emerged wholesale from wherever it had been, until then, lying in wait for me. It's urban, contemporary, dark, comic, and a narrative exploration of the perils-for all of us-in hubris. Ed King largely felt that way to me as I moved forward in it. I've found that, with each novel, I'm granted a fresh opportunity to walk in the labyrinthine hallways of self, and that, with the writing, doors open onto heretofore unexplored passageways. Human beings are, at least for me, fundamentally unfathomable. Like the Greek tragedy on which it's based, Ed King is relentless, a kind of pressure cooker. ![]() If it's propulsive-and I think it is-that's because I felt propelled while writing it. I wrote this book in a state of high chagrin about where we're headed as a species. Of course, as in the myth of Oedipus, there is a price to pay for ambition and blindness wedded to narcissism. ![]() The title figure is the founder of a company called Pythia who has ambitions on a par with Bezos and Musk-that is, to rule not only the world but the universe. Ed King is a retelling of the Oedipal myth and an examination of the narcissism manifesting, these days, in tech titans. ![]()
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