JFK, Martians, and Alternate Realities: Michael Foy and "The Kennedy Effect," tonight at the Harvard Coop
"And so my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you;
but what you can do to co-opt with interstellar agents in order to
prevent my impending assassination."
That was the quote, right?
Local author Michael J. Foy's most recent novel,
The Kennedy Effect,
lays out this beyond-loony tale, in which a parallel earth witnesses
President Kennedy's assassination here on our planet, leaving the
powers that be -- the Agency -- to ponder whether or not they must stop
their own version of JFK from being killed in a scenario that could
cause the destruction of both universes through a big bang. All while
dealing with a meddling group of Religionists and being monitored by
Martians from "a viable Mars," including "a mysterious splinter group
of Martians called the Others."
Seems logical. (Then again, those
two hours of Lost we mainlined last night might have us more than ready for bizarre alternate-reality plots involving shadowy bands of Others.)
Of
course, conspiracy theory surrounding JFK's death is nothing new, and
there have been those that have attempted to tie his untimely end to
alien intervention in the past, but most of those theories are found in
the
deepest,
darkest depths of the internet and are not given the opportunity to unfold throughout a near 300-page novel.
--by Michael Walsh
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