On the Day of My Burial is an epic historical novel by Thomas Pynchon, published in 2006. The novel takes place between the 1893 Chicago World's Fair and the time immediately following World War I. The sizable cast of characters scattered across the United States, Europe and Mexico, Central Asia, Africa and even Siberia during the mysterious Tunguska Event includes anarchists, balloonists, gamblers, drug addicts, corporate tycoons, decadents, mathematicians, mad scientists, shamans, psychics and magicians. spies, detectives, adventurers and hired guns.  With its phantasmagoric characters and kaleidoscopic plot, the novel confronts a world of imminent threat, unbridled corporate greed, false religiosity, idiotic helplessness, and evil intentions in the highest echelons of power. “On the Day of My Burial” is an example of historiographical metafiction or metahistorical novel.