PELEKINESIS TO PUBLISH PRESCIENT
PARADISE GARDENS AN ORWELLIAN NOVEL
“From the infinitely imaginative mind of Susan Weinstein, Paradise
Gardens spins a fabulous web. Clever, funny, serious, and
prescient. Lovers of Aldous Huxley's and Margaret Atwood's dystopias are in for
a satisfying treat.
—Sonia Taitz, award-winning author of The
Watchmaker’s Daughterand Great with
Child.
In the 1980s of Reagan’s America, Susan I. Weinstein
wrote PARADISE GARDENS, an Orwellian speculative fiction that imagined a
corporate feudal world, the United Business Estates, after the Federal
government dissolved amid ecological breakdown. In the 2250s, Nate Greenfield,
real estate visionary, with the help of P.R. maven Madge Chilton, sells
corporate business on his “eden underground.” Left behind are the Unconnected,
people outside corporate protection. Capitalism has devolved into feudalism so
total, that employees are conceived to fit the needs of business.
Suspended between the settings of 2250s on the Earth’s surface and 3011s
underground, chapters alternate with a revolving cast of characters. Fates are
determined by the Psychologicians, who manage the civilization’s data base.
Yet, when model employee Janet McCarthy finds herself caught in a web of
alternate identities, only her lover Michael can attempt to cut her loose. At
stake, is the reset of the planet. In this cautionary near-future, Upton
Sinclair’s classic It Can’t Happen Here,
has already happened. It is a vision at once strange and familiar. For
instance, though written pre- Internet, there are Information Pirates dedicated
to keeping facts free.
PARADISE GARDENS, which is illustrated, is the second of
three groundbreaking novels by Susan I. Weinstein to be released by independent
publishing house Pelekinesis. The Anarchist’s Girlfriend (Dec.) and Tales of the
Mer Family Onyx (June) complete her new definitive editions. Each
includes a beautiful new layout, preface, visual material and other expanded
content.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Susan I. Weinstein is a writer, playwright,
and painter. Paradise Gardens was read in-progress, at the original Dixon Place and at
Darinka, whose archive is now part of NYU’s Fales Library and Special
Collections. Pelekinesis published the new definitive editions of The Anarchist’s
Girlfriend (2016) and Paradise Gardens (2017), previously
serialized by maglomaniac.com.
Susan’s short fiction and poetry have appeared in
literary magazines, such as The Metric and The Portable Lower East Side. Currently, she is at work on a WWII novel based on
blacked out V-mail.
NEW EDITION of Paradise Gardens by Susan
I. Weinstein
Publication Date: April 20, 2017
ISBN: 978-1-938349-50-8
Suggested Retail Price: $21.95
http://pelekinesis.com/catalog/susan_weinstein-paradise_gardens.html
Pelekinesis full catalog and ordering information
available at www.pelekinesis.com
“It
may look like a vintage filing
cabinet
on wheels, but it’s a supercomputer
capable
of retaining the
genetic
information of the human
race
and the requirements of your
corporation.
Not just projections of
how
many individuals will be needed
for
your work, but the qualities of
those
individuals and the number
of
people essential to consume your
products.
Susan I. Weinstein is a writer, playwright, and painter. She is the author of 3 books, THE ANARCHIST'S GIRLFRIEND, PARADISE GARDENS and TALES OF THE MER FAMILY ONYX (Pelekinesis Publishing). Susan’s short fiction and poetry have appeared in literary magazines, including The Metric and The Portable Lower East Side - a literary magazine in NYU’s collection of the lower east side art and literary movement.
Her plays include the Dec 2019 performances of ETHER: The Strange Afterlife of Harry Houdini and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle at I.R.T. theater. Her play THE WAPSHOT WHATEVER: The Secret Lives of Computer Programs was at Dixon Place Mainstage in 2018. Her play Something About That Face was produced at NY’s Harold Clurman Theater. Susan lives in NYC.
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