About
1001, The Reincarnation Chronicles
“Stephen Weinstock’s imagination is fevered, surreal, fantastical. It will take you places you never dreamed you would go.”
– Barry Jay Kaplan, author, Black Orchid
A thought-provoking epic full of mystery and puzzles.
Lose yourself in a complex journey of discovery!
What discovery? The 1001 series is about a qaraq – a group of folks who meet in present day and realize they have interacted over countless past lives.
1001, The Reincarnation Chronicles takes for granted the immortality of the soul. If the soul lives an infinite number of lifetimes, and Time is endless, then everything is possible.
Any set of interactions between souls might be structured with confounding intricacy. The puzzle-like structures of 1001 unveil the infinite possibilities and enigmatic marvels of the journey of the soul.
“The list of vistas generated one after the other defies description! There is nothing in contemporary fiction, historical myth, or literature to compare with The Qaraq.”
– Deepak Menon, author Skymerge
Hello dear reader…
In my past life before 1001, I created music for theater companies (Magic Theater, Eureka Theater), choreographers, and dance studios (Merce Cunningham, Martha Graham).
My theater works included the experimental sound theater piece Mt. Quad in San Francisco, and the musical Rock and Roy, with writer Barry Jay Kaplan, about the double life of Rock Hudson.
From my earliest days working with texts while earning a Doctorate in stage direction from Berkeley, to later work as a musical dramaturg advising dozens of writers, I peered over the fence at the world of words from the blissful land of music.
I have worked as a musician/teacher on the dance faculties of UC Berkeley, Princeton, Juilliard, and the ‘Fame’ school, as well as at the NYU Musical Theater Writing Program.
For years I had the idea of a novel puzzling out an intricate past life history between a group of souls, but only with the epiphany of using the ancient frame tale structures of The Thousand and One Nights did I receive the courage to jump fields.
By day I still bring dancers to ecstasy with my improvisations, but at night I enter the world of metempsychosis, time-honored storytelling, and worlds ranging from historical fiction to romantic fantasy.
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“I, personally, enjoy the “liftoff” sensation that Mr. Weinstock achieves at key moments in the story: one moment you’re sitting in a present-day New Jersey house with “regular” folk, the next minute you’re in 3rd century Baghdad plotting to nab a book of stories purported to have great power.”
Sarah Berges, choreographer, editor
The Reincarnation Chronicles form a sprawling compendium of many types of literature. Science fiction tales set in several universes before our current one, anthropomorphic dramas of mermaids, glaciers, and neutrons, mythic romances, historical sagas…
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