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Dave Alty's, The Universe's Guide to the Seven Secrets is an offbeat, satirical odyssey into our dystopian future, as sobering as it is farcical. It mixes the humour of Kurt Vonnegut with the hilarity of Douglas Adams. So, what's it all about? Well, words and music for a start, with magic, and a little time travel for a middle, then the secrets of the universe and the search for a perfect life to end. Or, perhaps, when all's said and done it's simply about an average guy being confronted by an explosion of creativity after having the good fortune of attending university in middle age. Travelling through time it takes a comic look at the dystopian future we may expect if we carry on down the dodgy old socio-political road we're on right now. There's music in there too. Music and music nostalgia, particularly from the 60's 70's and 80's. Oh, and there's secrets, of course there is, but not just the seven in the title, there's eight and the eighth, or sex secret, will have your partner looking at you in a most peculiar way! Existentialism; the various uses and misuse of technology; artificial intelligence becoming creative; costs of fame; religion and its place in the modern world, and another biggie - is the mind its own place? - are all in here. Can we will ourselves to become who we want to be and if we could, where would that leave us? Yes, it's all here, but anyhow, whatever it's about humour certainly plays a big part, and it can't be stipulated enough the higher the level of your knowledge and understanding, the deeper the depths of your insight and reward. Knowledge is power.

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Dave Alty hails from a dark pool but arduously and assiduously seeks the light. Originally from Liverpool he found his spiritual home in The Lake District and can often be found at the top of Haystacks or on his way around Crummock Water. He was lucky enough to go to university late in life (mainly due to any business aspirations being crushed by the global financial crash of 2008 - happenstance!) where he obtained a First Class Honours degree in Music Practice from UCLAN and a thirst for knowledge. This love of music and thirst for knowledge spilled out onto the page and The Universe's Guide to the Seven Secrets was created. He also created DavGar with a friend from university and together they wrote thirty albums of relaxation, meditation, sleep and study music that has over 30million views/listens on YouTube. So, today, if not up a mountain, then Dave Alty can probably be found in a bar in Cockermouth or Ilkley, with his acoustic guitar, singing the 91 verses of Percy Bysshe Shelley's The Masque of Anarchy...

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