Any Other World Will Do

In a chance encounter on the overnight train from Paris to Barcelona Vikram stumbles across a promising new recruit. Miles an eighteen-year-old kid running away from a past hed just as soon forget is drawn to the older Indian man dazzled by Barcelona and smitten with the Hotel Kashmirs bartender Anna a Surinamese grad student with a genius for languages and Vikrams first recruit.Miles and Anna dont know theyre being recruited. They dont know that Vikram is neither an Indian nor a man or that hes 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 isnt the only one light-years from home-and this other one does not mean well-Miles and Anna become unwitting ambassadors to Vikrams world a place where the locals havent got their sh*t together any better than the people of Earth.A unique coming-of-age story Any Other World Will Do 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.