Nathan Coppedge

The Dramatis Personae: Stories for Inventing History Nathan Coppedge First edition

Twenty incredible, exclusive stories from the past, present, and future lives of Nathan Coppedge: the text includes two sections. The first section is called ?The Self,? and is devoted to Nathan Coppedge?s interesting incarnations as a ?cave boy,? ?the urchin of Ur,? one of the Eight Chinese Immortals, the Egyptian god of Astonishment, the burner of the Library of Alexandria, the inventor of the book, a child who names himself the end of humanity, Pippin son of William Tell, Pharisee the Fakir, the spy Aaron Burr, the self-made Rip Van Winkl, someone who believed himself to be Euler, a homeless bum named the Burgher King, a soul inside a super-computer, Eucaleh or Nathan Coppedge and a number of quasi-devilish future lives. Section Two is called ?Others,? and is devoted to a variety of personalities which Coppedge feels influenced history---all of them concocted with a faculty for creative invention. This is alternate history-in-the-making, all from the standpoint of a self-described ?potential novelist.?