Any Other World Will Do

<p><strong><em>Any Other World Will Do</em></strong> presents an alien vision of Earth's possible future. It's a send-up of the genre that wraps its earnest warning in plausible deniability. -<em>-Foreword Reviews</em></p><p><strong>* 2022 Benjamin Franklin Award - Silver Winner *</strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In a chance encounter on the overnight train from Paris to Barcelona Vikram stumbles across a promising new recruit.</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> Miles an eighteen-year-old kid running away from a past he'd just as soon forget is drawn to the older Indian man dazzled by Barcelona and smitten with the Hotel Kashmir's bartender Anna a Surinamese grad student with a genius for languages and Vikram's </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>first</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> recruit.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Miles and Anna don't know they're being recruited. They don't know that Vikram is neither an Indian nor a man or that he's a few thousand light-years from home. He has a lot of secrets it turns out. But he means well. When a series of bad decisions reveals the fact that Vikram isn't the only one light-years from home--and this other one does </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>not</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> mean well--Miles and Anna become unwitting ambassadors to Vikram's world a place where the locals haven't got their sh*t together any better than the people of Earth.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A unique coming-of-age story </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><em>Any Other World Will Do</em></strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> the debut novel from Alex Lubertozzi is inventive irreverent science fiction a wry commentary on the primal urge to flee our troubles and the romantic way we remember the journey.</span></p>