(665-page illustrated 2nd edition) What do a burned-out artist, a washed-up Native American film star, an exiled Bolivian nobleman from a lost-in-time Inca-era stronghold, and a coastal town whose main source of income is its dogs, have in common? A shared yearning for long-lost family, a heightened spiritual discernment, and above all the desire to start over in a completely new life--but unanticipated complications and dangers await as well, in the form of intruding anomalies and horrifying messengers from a lost age resurrected to mesh with dangerous, dimension-crossing contemporary technology. This first book in the DOPS series is at its beginning a leisurely, even amusing read, populated by ordinary though gifted people who have discarded their talent-based fame only to discover that completely unexpected, interwoven destinies of power and beauty ultimately await for each of them, testing to the fullest the bonds of love, acceptance and conventionality. Written in the lavishly descriptive style of the early 20th century, The Days of Pilothead Sound is an epic saga of interwoven destinies, "where there is no such thing as coincidence."