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===Comic philosophical novels=== [[File:George Cockroft in London 2018.jpg|thumb|Luke Rhinehart in 2018.]] A number of works by Luke Rhinehart have a similar style and themes to ''The Dice Man,'' alternating between first- and third-person voices with selections from fictional documents.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://hilobrow.com/2012/11/15/luke-rhinehart/|title=Luke Rhinehart β HILOBROW|website=hilobrow.com|access-date=5 June 2018}}</ref> In one case, he even quotes from a future book that he did not actually write until more than two decades later. The voices having different characteristics, the novel's mood changes accordingly. Presenting these multiple fragments from multiple viewpoints together results in a "cubist" narrative structure.{{citation needed|date=November 2022}}Β Of this, Rhinehart stated that they had "always conceived of myself as being multiple β having, you know, a dozen different selves, if not a thousand different selves, at any given moment."<ref name=guardian1/> ''Adventures of Wim'' is a new interpretation of the story of Wim, a Montauk boy born of a virgin mother, declared the savior of the Montauk nation, and his life quest for Ultimate Truth. The story is told in part through the medium of fictional documents. ''[[The Search for the Dice Man]]'' (1993), set twenty years after ''The Dice Man'', tells the story of Luke Rhinehart's son, Larry, who has built a highly successful and stable life after rejecting his father's embracing of Chance. On a quest to find his father, Larry's life of order and routine is enveloped in chaos, the legacy of his father's work. From a draft written at the same time as ''The Dice Man'', ''Naked Before the World'' (2008) celebrates the lives of both hippies and the establishment in 1960s Mallorca through the story of Katya, a naive Catholic art student who arrives on the island to study. Katya is thrown into a world of artists, frauds, sex, drugs and the struggle to discover who she wants to be. In ''Jesus Invades George: An Alternative History'' (2013), which takes place in 2007, then-sitting President George W. Bush is possessed by the spirit of Jesus Christ. The story playfully reveals and deconstructs the hypocrisy of government and modern politics. In ''[[Invasion (Rhinehart novel)|Invasion]]'' (2016), aliens invade Earth for the sole purpose of having fun. Hyper-intelligent and able to morph into multiple forms, they play games with culture and infrastructure, from computer networks and social media to corporate culture and human relationships. The resulting mayhem reveals the primitive nature of our society, and offers an alternative vision for the human race. A sequel is yet to be published, entitled ''The Hairy Balls and the End of Civilization''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lukerhinehart.net/the-hairy-balls-and-the-end-of-civilization/|title=THE HAIRY BALLS AND THE END OF CIVILIZATION β Luke Rhinehart|website=www.lukerhinehart.net}}</ref>
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