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"""Any Other World Will Do presents an alien vision of Earth's possible future. It's a send-up of the genre that wraps its earnest warning in plausible deniability."" --Foreword Reviews * 2022 Benjamin Franklin Award - Silver Winner * In a chance encounter on the overnight train from Paris to Barcelona, Vikram stumbles across a promising new recruit. Miles, an eighteen-year-old kid running away from a past he'd just as soon forget, is drawn to the older Indian man, dazzled by Barcelona, and smitten with the Hotel Kashmir's bartender, Anna, a Surinamese grad student with a genius for languages and Vikram's first recruit. Miles and Anna don't know they're being recruited. They don't know that Vikram is neither an Indian nor a man, or that he's a few thousand light-years from home. He has a lot of secrets, it turns out. But he means well. When a series of bad decisions reveals the fact that Vikram isn't the only one light-years from home-and this other one does not mean well-Miles and Anna become unwitting ambassadors to Vikram's world, a place where the locals haven't got their sh*t together any better than the people of Earth. A unique coming-of-age story, Any Other World Will Do, the debut novel from Alex Lubertozzi, is inventive, irreverent science fiction, a wry commentary on the primal urge to flee our troubles and the romantic way we remember the journey."

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Alex Lubertozzi has been a writer and editor since the Clinton administration and has coauthored two works of nonfiction, The Complete War of the Worlds (2001) and World War II on the Air (2003). He has written for numerous books and magazines and had his short fiction published in The Arcanist and Sundial Magazine. Alex has been composing fiction for most of his life (if you count lying), but Any Other World Will Do is his first novel. He lives in the Chicago area with his wife and son.

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