LOST Reality: The Sideways World of Season Six

by Pearson Moore

Experience Season Six of LOST as it happened-the way it was meant to be enjoyed. LOST Reality contains all 20 of Pearson Moore's Season Six essays, each of them written in the early morning hours following the episode's broadcast premiere. There's no better way to enjoy the journey.This is a book for dedicated fans of the television series. In this volume you will find no time-tested theories, only the deep, on-the-fly analysis that made Pearson Moore's essays must-read events during the final season. In light of later revelations, most of Moore's insights could probably be labeled as 'wrong' or at best 'incomplete', but a constant refrain in Moore's essays is reader involvement. The point of the essays is not to reveal truth, but rather to stimulate thought.Take as an example the idea of Faraday's Boulder, developed by Moore in three essays during the season. The original concept was that the Incident was fueled by the catastrophic opposition of nuclear and electromagnetic forces, creating separate but parallel channels in the flow of spacetime. We can laugh at Moore's idea, thinking it disproven by later episodes...or we can use this concept as a stepping stone to deeper understanding of the real meaning of the Sideways World. As Moore points out, the flash sideways scenes originated in a PARALLEL world, not in an 'afterlife' or 'purgatory'. The reality was appropriately called 'Sideways' because that's what it was. Contemplation of Faraday's Boulder, and Moore's other 'harebrained ideas', pays enormous dividends in understanding Season Six.LOST Reality contains all-new essays prepared especially for this edition. A new introduction sets the tone, and the chapter on the Sideways Reality puts the final season into a dramatically new perspective. As promised, this book also contains Moore's long-awaited fourth essay on Christian Shephard, "The Good Shephard." A long essay on "Molasses Smuggling and the Intelligence Singularity" rounds out the volume with a look at Moore's LOST-inspired work and interests, including a discussion of the fascinating structural features of his science fiction epic, Deneb.For the first time in a book by Pearson Moore, a fair number of the illustrations were created by Moore himself. His works include computer-generated images created for the original essays, and feature outstanding freehand pencil drawings generated only in the last two weeks of August 2014, days before publication. Fans have already commented on the surprising quality of the work. "I'm as shocked as anyone," Moore said. Indeed; he completed his first-ever pencil drawing on August 6, 2014. Sketches include freehand portraits of John Locke, Kate Austen, and Dr. Christian Shephard, as well as renderings of both Neandertal and Sapiens (human) skulls.

282 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 31, 2014

About the author

Pearson Moore is the author of "Deneb," the most exciting science fiction epic of the decade. "Deneb" follows dozens of memorable characters thrown into a hostile, alien environment as they scramble to understand the deeply-layered mysteries that control their lives. As they dig into ancient visions and secrets, they discover a web of conspiracies and evil intentions that span 45,000 years of history and call into question the most basic of assumptions about human will, desire, and destiny. With profound allusions to literature old and new, "Deneb" is a story that will stay with readers for years to come.

Moore is the bestselling author of "LOST Humanity," for many years the #1 bestselling companion book to the television series LOST, written in the style that has earned him tens of thousands of followers worldwide. As well as authoring several LOST-related volumes, including "LOST Identity," Pearson has written well-received companion books for both Game of Thrones and Breaking Bad.

With over 100 essays on LOST, read at over 40,000 websites around the world, Moore is recognized as a leading authority on the groundbreaking television series. "LOST Humanity" was the #1 Bestseller in its class for 14 weeks in 2011 and several weeks in 2012. His second book on LOST, "LOST Identity," includes illustrations by renowned LOST artist ArtGUS, and concentrates on the unique characters of LOST. Moore edited the highly regarded "LOST Thought" and "LOST Thought University Edition," now required reading in many college film and drama courses.

Moore has been Featured Writer at SL-Lost.com, the Dark UFO website, Westeros.org, and WinterIsComing.com. In addition to "Game of Thrones Season One Essays" and "Game of Thrones Season Two Essays," he is author of the "Thrones Questions and Comments" series of Game of Thrones books which analyze the television series in the rich, insightful essay format that has become his hallmark.

Pearson Moore writes in several genres, including historical fiction, science fiction, and current events non-fiction. His first novel, "Cartier's Ring," was published in April, 2011. "Cartier's Ring" is the story of the founding of Canada in 1608 as seen from the Aboriginal perspective. Moore has also written "Intolerable Loyalty," a novel set in Québec during the American Revolutionary War, and "Trinity," a science fiction novel treating the emergence of a genetically unique population and its social and political implications.