Premeditated Spontaneity: A Retro-Futurist Memoir
Premeditated Spontaneity, the final volume in the trilogy The Secret Memoirs of Anton Krait, reveals how and why this unusual story came to be told. Krait, teaming up again with Raouf Awad and Ilse Voss, travels to Southeast Asia in order to play a final series of matches before the last existing Hollerith Machine is destroyed. But the sudden disappearance of Colonel Becker, the international commissioner for The Game, means that the threat posed by the Vril is far from over.

A special feature of the book is a discussion guide and set of sixty questions (twenty questions per book) for reflection on issues raised by the trilogy. This guide will help direct book groups and students toward the themes and images that recur throughout the novels.
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Premeditated Spontaneity: A Retro-Futurist Memoir
Premeditated Spontaneity, the final volume in the trilogy The Secret Memoirs of Anton Krait, reveals how and why this unusual story came to be told. Krait, teaming up again with Raouf Awad and Ilse Voss, travels to Southeast Asia in order to play a final series of matches before the last existing Hollerith Machine is destroyed. But the sudden disappearance of Colonel Becker, the international commissioner for The Game, means that the threat posed by the Vril is far from over.

A special feature of the book is a discussion guide and set of sixty questions (twenty questions per book) for reflection on issues raised by the trilogy. This guide will help direct book groups and students toward the themes and images that recur throughout the novels.
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Premeditated Spontaneity: A Retro-Futurist Memoir

Premeditated Spontaneity: A Retro-Futurist Memoir

Premeditated Spontaneity: A Retro-Futurist Memoir

Premeditated Spontaneity: A Retro-Futurist Memoir

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Overview

Premeditated Spontaneity, the final volume in the trilogy The Secret Memoirs of Anton Krait, reveals how and why this unusual story came to be told. Krait, teaming up again with Raouf Awad and Ilse Voss, travels to Southeast Asia in order to play a final series of matches before the last existing Hollerith Machine is destroyed. But the sudden disappearance of Colonel Becker, the international commissioner for The Game, means that the threat posed by the Vril is far from over.

A special feature of the book is a discussion guide and set of sixty questions (twenty questions per book) for reflection on issues raised by the trilogy. This guide will help direct book groups and students toward the themes and images that recur throughout the novels.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9798331441937
Publisher: Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date: 07/27/2024
Pages: 398
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.89(d)

About the Author

Anton Krait was a professor of philology at Columbia University from 1928 through 1969. For several years, he rose to the rank of Alpha in Das Glasperlenspiel (commonly known in the United States simply as “The Game”). in addition to his many scholarly works, Dr. Krait is the author of Yesterday’s Tomorrow, Moebius Strip, and Premeditated Spontaneity.

Jeffrey L. Buller is an author, college professor, and speaker who worked closely with Dr. Krait
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