What Lies Beyond

Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fantasy, Contemporary, Fiction & Literature, Short Stories
Cover of the book What Lies Beyond by Paolo Ballardini, PAOLO BALLARDINI
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Author: Paolo Ballardini ISBN: 9781999784256
Publisher: PAOLO BALLARDINI Publication: July 20, 2017
Imprint: PAOLO BALLARDINI Language: English
Author: Paolo Ballardini
ISBN: 9781999784256
Publisher: PAOLO BALLARDINI
Publication: July 20, 2017
Imprint: PAOLO BALLARDINI
Language: English

The stories of this collection have a common theme: facts are an illusion behind which stands the reality of our emotions.

Emotions shape our perception of facts and give us access to parallel dimensions in which facts are bent and shaped by new rules.

Inside these pages we contemplate a deal with the Devil, technological doorways to experience and time, the thoughts of a tramcar on the journey of a lifetime, travels beyond life, love and death, what really happened when the Luftwaffe gatecrashed the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, and much more.

These stories intertwine reality and fantasy, history and legend, imaginary atmosphere and scientific hypothesis, allowing multiple levels of meaning through myth, supernatural, allegory, metaphor, symbolism and the surreal. The stories in this book are realistic and credible because they are factual and precise and make plausible and satisfactory what is incredible and questionable.

“By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The non-existent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.” Nikos Kazantzakis, Report to Greco (1965)

“I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.” Salvador Dalí

“If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.” Marc Chagall

“The man who cannot visualize a horse galloping on a tomato is an idiot.” André Breton

“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” Albert Einstein

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The stories of this collection have a common theme: facts are an illusion behind which stands the reality of our emotions.

Emotions shape our perception of facts and give us access to parallel dimensions in which facts are bent and shaped by new rules.

Inside these pages we contemplate a deal with the Devil, technological doorways to experience and time, the thoughts of a tramcar on the journey of a lifetime, travels beyond life, love and death, what really happened when the Luftwaffe gatecrashed the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, and much more.

These stories intertwine reality and fantasy, history and legend, imaginary atmosphere and scientific hypothesis, allowing multiple levels of meaning through myth, supernatural, allegory, metaphor, symbolism and the surreal. The stories in this book are realistic and credible because they are factual and precise and make plausible and satisfactory what is incredible and questionable.

“By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The non-existent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.” Nikos Kazantzakis, Report to Greco (1965)

“I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.” Salvador Dalí

“If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.” Marc Chagall

“The man who cannot visualize a horse galloping on a tomato is an idiot.” André Breton

“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” Albert Einstein

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