Touched is one of the latest of Walter Mosley's sixty books. This one reminds me of the kind of science-fiction/fantasy tales I read in the 1950s. It's told in the first person by a man who wakes up in his own bed, next to his wife, from a partly remembered dream that may have lasted a thousand years. He knows he has a mission, that he is in his own body, and so is another, probably more powerful, being. He feels he is to be part of either saving or destroying humanity, and maybe all the universe. Much action ensues. (read less)

Touched is one of the latest of Walter Mosley's sixty books. This one reminds me of the kind of science-fiction/fantasy tales I read in the 1950s. It's told in the first person by a man who wakes up in his own bed, next to his wife, from a partly remembered dream that may have lasted a thousand years. He knows he has a mission, that he is in his own body, and so is another, probably more (read more)