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Balcony of Fog
Published 2020
A toiler from post-nuclear America meets a mysterious woman who escapes with him to the cloud realm, where sublimity and nightmare mix to illuminate the tension between the power of love and the love of power.
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Rin, Tongue and Dorner
Published 2018
A Planning luminary of “Clemency,” a futuristic weather dome, hears female voices in his sleep and flies through the cosmos of his brain to find their source, discovering the violent, rapturous inner workings of human desire.
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Arms from the Sea
Published 2016
A young sculptor from the State of Salt swallows a poison pill that transports him to a watery heaven, whose monstrous, seductive creator reveals to him what it might mean to redeem a desolate world.
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The Hope We Seek
Published 2014
Zachary Knox, "the Bull's-Eye Telepath," heads north in search of gold, arriving at a mining camp where arduous labor, sustained by belief in the cult of Hope, promises an unearthly reward.
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Too Far
Published 2010
An exhilarating and heart-breaking story of an end to innocence that follows two six-year-olds as they take refuge from their turbulent homes by exploring the mysterious woodland beyond.
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Wild Animus
Published 2004
The quest for a “bliss beyond fear” drives a young idealist to the Alaskan wilderness where, alone with his dangerous ideas, he transforms himself into a wild creature, prey to a strangely familiar pack of wolves.
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Author Rich Shapero’s books strike flashes of insight into realms unseen. The Village Voice hailed his story experiences as “A delirious fusion of fiction, music and art,” and Howard Frank Mosher called him a “spellbinding storyteller.” He is the winner of a Digital Book World award for best adult fiction app. He lives with his wife and daughters in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Use this website to explore Rich Shapero's TooFar Media app.
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