Dear Friends —

WORLD OF WORLDS received a GOLD BOOK AWARD from Literary Titan late in the day on Friday, June 5!

🏆 Congratulations!

We are proud to present you with the Literary Titan Book Award. Your book deserves extraordinary praise, and we are proud to acknowledge your hard work, dedication, and writing talent. 

Literary Titan Gold Book Award: Fiction

JUN 5

The Literary Titan Book Award honors books that exhibit exceptional storytelling and creativity. This award celebrates novelists who craft compelling narratives, create memorable characters, and weave stories that captivate readers. The recipients are writers who excel in their ability to blend imagination with literary skill, creating worlds that enchant and narratives that linger long after the final page is turned.

WORLD OF WORLDS: Stories From Four Continents follows Mr. Sacks’s debut novel, the prize-winning DRINKING FROM THE STREAM (March 2025), which swept awards for political thriller, action/adventure and literary fiction, winning more than a dozen accolades.

This is political fiction from the front lines. An unusually evocative and immersive work based on lived experience, the action-adventure stories in WORLD OF WORLDS wrestle with the tumultuous years 1968-1981, but they are painfully, ironically current. 

The characters, Americans mostly—tough, rebellious youth, far from home, on bad roads, usually broke—test cultural and racial limits in strange, alluring, but pitiless foreign surroundings, while exposed to existential and physical pressures that threaten their moral underpinnings and their very survival.

WORLD OF WORLDS readers want moral seriousness with the action. They prize Vietnam-era historical fiction, post-colonial Africa travel stories, character-driven 1970s political thrillers, and coming-of-age adventure tales. Anyone who has journeyed the world’s back roads—children of expats, tourists, students of post-independence Africa, European, African, American, or Australian travelers abroad—will recognize the authenticity immediately.

The author is an accomplished novelist, journalist, and diplomat. But above all, he was there.

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