Chess Here is a quick description and cover image of book Famous Men Who Never Lived written by K. And when the only copy of The Pyronauts goes missing, Hel must decide how far she is willing to go to recover it and finally face her own anger, guilt, and grief over what she has truly lost. Brief Summary of Book: Famous Men Who Never Lived by K. Conceptually adventurous yet full of feeling, Famous Men Who Never Lived is a smart, thought-provoking, and thoroughly enjoyable debut.' - Charles Yu, author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe.

Instead, she obsessively rereads Vikram’s copy of The Pyronauts―a science fiction masterwork in her world that now only exists as a single flimsy paperback―and becomes determined to create a museum dedicated to preserving the remaining artifacts and memories of her vanished culture.īut the refugees are unwelcome and Hel’s efforts are met with either indifference or hostility. While others, like her partner Vikram, attempt to assimilate, Hel refuses to reclaim her former career or create a new life. The slang and technology are foreign to her, the politics and art unrecognizable. As one of the thousands who fled the outbreak of nuclear war in an alternate United States―an alternate timeline―she finds herself living as a refugee in our own not-so-parallel New York. Wherever Hel looks, New York City is both reassuringly familiar and terribly wrong. A Most Anticipated Book of 2019 at The Verge, Barnes & Noble Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog, and more.įor readers of Station Eleven and Exit West, Famous Men Who Never Lived explores the effects of displacement on our identities, the communities that come together through circumstance, and the power of art to save us.

Famous Men Who Never Lived by K. Chess