Gordon N Hideaki Hideaki

Meanderings of a Bent Mind

The Journeys of an Introvert

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Produktbeschreibung

Meanderings of a Bent Mind is a collection of interwoven, speculative, and fabulist stories that blend elements of fantasy, fairy tale, and gritty wartime narrative. Meanderings of a Bent Mind is a collection of interwoven, speculative, and fabulist stories that blend elements of fantasy, fairy tale, and gritty wartime narrative. The stories often feature young girl protagonists and explore themes of kingship, nobility, and magical realism. Some stories involve talking animals interacting with humans, while others play with puns, such as in "The Battle of Byte Mountain," where computer terminology is humorously woven into a feudal fantasy setting. The collection also delves into time slips, ghost tales, and archaeology, with some wartime narratives adding bittersweet contrasts to the fantastical elements. The stories, though diverse, maintain a sense of continuity through recurring motifs. The collection will appeal to readers of fantasy, philosophy, and young adult fiction, with a fabulist style reminiscent of Jorge Luis Borges.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Mission Point Press
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. November 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9781965278758
• ISBN-10: 1965278752
• Artikelnr.: 74806014

Autorenporträt

Gordon Hideaki Nagai is a second-generation American of Japanese ancestry. He was the eldest son to a second-generation Japanese American mother and a first-generation Japanese father and grew up on a farm just outside the town of Atwater, California. He and his family were forcibly evacuated during World War II to a concentration camp in Colorado where they lived for three years surrounded by barbed wire fences and guard towers. They returned to their family-owned farm in early February 1945 before war's end. He attended elementary school in Atwater and high school in Livingston in central San Joaquin Valley, California. He then graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with a Master of Social Welfare degree. He served two years of alternative service as a conscientious objector in lieu of military service with the California Department of Mental Hygiene, then thirty-five years as a social worker for several social service agencies. In the late '60s and early '70s he was active in the Civil Rights movement and protesting the war in Vietnam. Gordon's recent literary work is a memoir-style novel he collaborated in writing with a friend from high school titled Two Faces. It tells of two 10-year-old friends, a white girl and a Japanese boy, whose lives are disrupted by the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and how they face and deal with racial prejudice that follows. Gordon has also self-published eight booklets of puns, a volume from the perspective of an introvert punster addressing how he thinks, and The Ultimate Book of Dad Jokes and Born to Pun published by Ulysses Press, Berkeley, CA. All are available through local bookstores and on Amazon.com. You may read more at Gordon's blog: https: //journeysofabentmind.wordpress.com