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Back and back we go, searching for reasons; scrutinizingthe past in the hope that we'll turn up some
fragment of an explanation to help us better understand ourselves and ourcondition.
For the psychologist, this quest is perhaps at root a pur?suit of primal pain. For the physicist, a sniffing
after evi?dence of the First Cause. For the theologian, of course, a hunt for God's fingermarks on
Creation.
And for a storyteller—particularly for a fabulist, a writer of fantastiqueslike myself—it may very well be
a search forall three, motivated by the vague suspicion that they areinextricably linked.
Imajicawas an attempt to weave these quests into a sin?gle narrative, folding my dilettante's grasp of this
trio ofdisciplines—psychology, physics, and theology—into an in-terdimensional adventure. The resulting
novel sprawls, no doubt of that. The book is simply too cumbersome and toodiverse in its concerns for
the tastes of some. For others, however, Imajica's absurd ambition is part of its appeal. These readers
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