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Hugh Conway, a veteran of the Great War and a British diplomat, told a novelist friend an incredible story. He and three other people were being evacuated from a rebellion in Baskul when their plane was hijacked and flown to Tibet. After they crash landed in the frigid, windy mountains, their dying pilot told them to go to the lamasery of Shangri-La. The four passengers were guided there by porters and a postulant from the lamasery. After winding through dangerous mountain passes for hours, they
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No black holes or AI, but as much speculative fiction as 2001: A Space Odyssey or Interstellar. If a different kind of existence was offered to us, would we take it? Some may take offense at its characters' ethnic and gender insensitivity, but historical context is everything (keep up the good work, PCers, and nothing will be written). Absorbing and unsettling. Intriguing narrative structure.
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