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About the Book
The Imaginary Coup [working title] is a prose work in progress (2016-). This is a sample, tantamount to one-quarter of the working draft. It is free to download, and welcomes feedback.
This is a contemporary story for the literary genre. What drives this story is a pair of closely related ideas, well established across scientific fields: first, our imaginations merge with our memories to create our realities; second, our individual perceptions of reality are unique.
Those ideas dovetail in the storytelling. The book is set in a fictional ‘Republic’ in central-eastern, sub-Saharan Africa: a state-to-be undergoing a savagely contested coup before it is officially born. The self-styled president-elect of the new republic declaims the hideous unrest to be 'an imaginary coup'. The story later pivots toward a recognisably real world African city, and a puzzling reality that lies just beyond its urban limits.
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