Richard Baedecker, the aptly named hero of this extraordinary novel, is a man adrift, searching for a lost sense of purpose. A former astronaut, Baedecker once walked on the moon, briefly escaping the tidal pull of gravity itself. Sixteen years later, gravity and other entropic forces have overtaken him. At this critical moment, against the unlikely backdrop of Poona, India, Baedecker encounters a remarkable young woman named Maggie Brown, who will point him toward the "places of power" he has left behind and help him rediscover his essential self.
- ISBN10 1596064161
- ISBN13 9781596064164
- Publish Date 31 December 2011 (first published 1 April 1989)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 17 June 2021
- Imprint Subterranean Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 310
- Language English