The Magical Glasses: A Vision Quest

This genre-defying, expectation-shattering novel-in-stories features five boys and young men united by the one magical item that each needs to use to complete his quest to defeat the villains in his life: a pair of glasses called the Magical Glasses, which grants its wearer hope and optimism in the face of fear and panic. The stories of Scamp, a stableboy in medieval Norway sent on a quest to steal the Magical Glasses from a dragon, Scrub, a young Arab wizard in a cyberpunk near-future trying to stop a crime syndicate from taking over the world, Skip, a Latino navy mechanic in a science fiction far-future fighting to defend his planet from an attack by cyborgs, and Scar, a boy in Ancient Greece whose life depends on his ability to solve a riddle posed by an Ancient Greek philosopher, are unified by the meta-narrative of Jacob Little Wolf, an Indigenous American Lakota boy attacked by a jackalope trickster spirit trying to kill him during his Vision Quest. Part novel, part collection of novellas, part fantasy, part cyberpunk, part science fiction, part magical realism, this novel-in-stories has one thing that everyone will love: a message about the healing powers of hope. Readers are also sure to enjoy the drama, action, and adventure, in a historical magical-realism fantasy/sci-fi story set on Earth in the ancient past, medieval past, present, near future, and distant future.