In the author's acknowledgements appended to the end of The Map of the Sky, both Felix J. Palma and the translator in charge of rendering his whimsical worlds from the Spanish language text into English make mention of “the crushing loneliness of being a writer.” Though indubitably true, this is nevertheless an assertion utterly at odds with the non-stop narrative of the novel, which so entangles its central character H. G. Wells in the lives of others, and the affairs of a nation—nay, an entire galaxy!—that he scarcely has time to take tea.
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