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The Eightfold Path (Hardcover)
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The Eightfold Path (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R470
Discovery Miles 4 700
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From award-winning authors Charles Johnson and Steven Barnes comes
a graphic novel anthology of interconnected Afrofuturistic parables
inspired by the teachings of BuddhaEight strangers looking for
enlightenment from an ancient spiritual teacher are trapped in a
cave high in the mountains on their way to his temple. One of his
acolytes directs them to each tell a story that the group can learn
from as they wait out the horrible snowstorm that rages outside the
cave's entrance.One by one the travelers each share a story that,
unbeknownst to them, is actually a morality tale representing one
of the aspects of final enlightenment as taught in Buddhism. As the
wind howls through the night, they tell symbolic stories of horror,
dystopia, high adventure, cyberpunk, and urban fantasy. Each story
is a spoke on the symbolic Dharma wheel, and each interlocking tale
gets the travelers closer to their true destiny-unveiling the
future of the entire human race. This remarkable collection borrows
heavily from the traditions of pop-culture morality anthology
series such as The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, Night Gallery,
Lovecraft Country, and the publications of E.C. Comics. Heavily
influenced by the science fiction pulps of the 1950s and 1960s,
this brilliant collection remixes classic social narratives such as
Plato's Allegory of the Cave, Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, and
The Arabian Nights, through an edgy, contemporary, yet spiritually
centered lens. In The Eightfold Path, our destinies lie in heeding
the lessons given in every one of these entrancing tales.
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