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""A masterful blend of everything literature and history enthusiasts will love."" - OnlineBookClub.org ""With a delicious blend of prose, verse, and poetic syntax, author Sebastian Michael takes you on a wild rollercoaster spread across two millennia through monumental events that changed the course of history. ... Highly recommended."" - Pikasho Deka, Readers' Favourite (5 Stars) Orlando, beautiful though lazy shepherd boy on Crete, is tasked by the gods to settle a dispute: who among them is patron of the most perfect city. His journey takes him to Alexandria where he studies under Euclid, to Florence, where he sits for a portrait by Leonardo da Vinci, to London where he falls in love with a Russian princess; then, having inexplicably but assuredly turned woman, to Paris where she joins the women's march on Versailles, then to Vienna where she chooses to dress as a man while making the acquaintance of, among others, a curious Dr Freud and a very young Ludwig Wittgenstein, and finally, now once again as a man though experimenting with drag, to New York where he experiences the creative as well as destructive forces around Warhol's Factory; before, ultimately, timeless, ageless, and without gender or agenda Orlando becomes simply Orlando. A playful literary odyssey through 2500 years of Western civilisation.

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Sebastian Michael was born in Manchester, England, and grew up in Switzerland before moving to London at the age of 21, where he creates across platforms in theatre, film, print, and online, as a writer, director, and occasionally performer. He is the author of several stage plays, ranging from contemporary relationship drama (The Power of Love) and the topical examination of religious fervour (Elder Latimer Is in Love), to the 'apocalyptic comedy' Top Story, and a celebration of Shakespeare's poetry in The Sonneteer. His short films and debut feature The Hour of Living have been screened at festivals worldwide, and he is the author of the experimental online project EDEN by FREI - 'a concept narrative in the here & now about the where, the wherefore and forever', from which the EDEN miniatures series has been released in paperback and as ebooks, and from which his 'picture story book for grownups', The Snowflake Collector, has also been published in hardback and as ebook, illustrated by Diego Cassia. He is the author of one novel, Angel, and of Orlando in the Cities, a playful literary odyssey through 2500 years of civilisation first published in A Quantum City (Eds. Hovestadt/Bühlmann, Birkhäuser, 2015). He is co-author, with Ludger Hovestadt and Vera Bühlmann, of A Genius Planet (Birkhäuser 2017), and the writer of the Atlas of Digital Architecture (Eds. Ludger Hovestadt, Urs Hirschberg, Oliver Fritz; Birkhäuser 2020). Sebastian lives in London and works wherever his projects take him. He is also guest lecturer at the Department for Architecture Theory and the Philosophy of Technics at the University of Technology Vienna (TU Wien).

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