Tableland

What is love? Why do we have to die? Tableland is a very loose retelling of the Gilgamesh epic. In fleeing his own mortality, Longren, a hermaphrodite astronomer, gets himself trapped in a quest for the Tree of Life in an alternate reality where the world is flat and the sky is blue plastic, with light bulbs for stars. He and his companions will uncover the meaning of love, the nature of good and evil, learn about God’s providence, and will discover what they are really looking for, which is something far more than just a way to escape death and live forever. The characters travel among multiple alternate realities, with a little time travel as part of the mix.