Providence Road Press, Ottawa, ON, 1998.  Trade soft cover, 317 pages.  Wraps show edge and cover wear, some creases and corner wear; binding sound, some soil on bottom page block.  Small spot on half-title page; remainder of interior clean and unmarked.  Flat signed by author on title page.  ‘Welcome to the end of the world.  Welcome to the Book of Oona ParaSelene, and into a future where certainty and dreams are one in the same.  Welcome to a place where one longs for nightmares, when all of one’s desires are contained, and just as accessible as stepping off a train.  Surrounded simultaneously by her past and future, Oona searches and seeks out the only life that could truly free her from the present.  Travel through the fires of Revelania.  Ride the glide rail.  Experience the Boulevard of Time, and continue on to ecologically perfect land. … In the tradition of Orwell and Wingham, M. P. Rogers has painted the picture of the new millennium.  All the changing patterns, whether economic, political, religious, or philosophical, are clearly placed within this intricate puzzle.’ (from rear wrap)