Equinox at Hilltop

About the Book

Equinox at Hilltop is about a village atop a hill that has no bottom. Its sides, rich with forests, spill on downward forever. Mayor Angstrom, the village’s head official, hires four wizards, the young mathematician Isosceles, the beautiful violinist Andante, the cryptical Chrysyphus, and the boistrous Wonderhorn Jones, to fight flying bicycles from the moon which periodically attack the village. With the help of Jones’ ravenous antique car and Chrysyphus’ passenger balloon, the wizards devise ways to fight not only the bicycles in the sky but also the ominous black telephones attached to almost all the trees in the forest on the hill’s lower slopes, self-voiced phones which besiege the village with mad voices. In the midst of this confusion Isosceles falls in love with Andante, but she has been taken away by the arrogant dandy Vindrosen. Only after the villagers are dispersed into the forests for the equivalent of thousands of years and then reassembled in the long-empty village under new rules does Isosceles get to inherit Andante, and share love with her in a way he didn’t expect.

About the Author

Christopher A. Zackey was born in Brattleboro, Vermont, and grew up on a farm outside of town. He began writing in third grade, and began producing his mature work in his early twenties. He has had stories and poems published in literary magazines, and has self-published a series of fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction chapbooks which he distributes to recipients in various fields. He is the inventor of a thinking system called The Mythology, which purports to be a qualitative, humanities-based “Theory of Everything.” For his creative work in mythology he has been featured in Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who in the World. He has produced a large body of literary fantasy fiction, hyperromantic or surrealistic poetry, and creative, metaphysical non-fiction. He has also developed a unique creative interdisciplinary reading theory he calls Geodesic Reading. He earned a B.A. in English from Brandeis University, an M.A. in English from Indiana Univeristy, Bloomington, and an M.L.S. degree from S.U.N.Y. Albany. He has lived in Vermont, Massachusetts, Indiana, Oregon, New York City, and currently resides in Upstate New York, where he works as a reference librarian. He is married to the artist Martha Zackey.