The Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosencreutz

A Romance in Eight Days

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Audiobook

English language

Published Dec. 31, 2015 by Blackstone Audio, Inc..

(1 review)

Often described as an alchemical allegory, John Crowley instead decided this is "the first science fiction novel". After all, "it's fiction; it's about the possibilities of a science; and it's a novel". No matter what else it might be, it's definitely one of the great outlandish stories in Western literature.

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reviewed The Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosencreutz by Johann Valentin Andreae

Sci-Fi or Meta?

Alchemy - old school science, maybe went in the wrong direction, but the heart was there. John Crowley seeks simple explanation and presents this work of art as a novel, simple in its disguise, but full of riddles and puzzles. In fact, as he says, you could see it as a game with levels.

I have enjoyed this book and somehow I am (almost) sure that I have found this gem in relation to Robert Anton Wilson.

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