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The Brightonomicon
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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The Brightonomicon
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Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Robert Rankin
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Physical Properties |
Format:Paperback / softback | Pages:384 | Dimensions(mm): Height 199,Width 137 |
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Category/Genre | Fantasy |
ISBN/Barcode |
9780575085466
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Classifications | Dewey:823.914 823.914 |
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
Orion Publishing Co
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Imprint |
Gollancz
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Publication Date |
26 August 2010 |
Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
Our teenage hero, having been thrown from Brighton Pier by the leader of The Canvey Island Mod Squad, narrowly escapes drowning thanks to the Perfect Master, Cosmic Dick and self-styled Logos of the Aeon (not to mention the reinventer of the Ocarina), Hugo Rune Himself. Our hero has lost his memory and, in desperation, agrees to join The Lad Himself in the solving of twelve cases based upon The Brightonomicon, the new zodiac signs formed by the alignment of Brighton streets and discovered by Rune: carriageway constellations. And together they must find the Chronovision before it falls into the wrong hands and affords ultimate power to the would-be world dictator. And this being an adventure most exciting, they must find it before the sinister Count Otto Black, would-be World Dictator and all-round bad guy. Or the whole world will all go to pot.
Author Biography
Robert Rankin is an unrepentant Luddite who writes his bestselling novels by hand in exercise books. He is the author of The Brentford Trilogy (7 books), The Armageddon Quartet (3 books) and many more.
Reviews'We read him for his exuberant salmagundi of old jokes, myths, urban and otherwise, catchphrases, liberatingly crazy ideas, running gags, recurring characters and locations, unreliable autobiographical anecdotes, and not forgetting the now legendary load of old toot . . . he becomes funnier the more you read him'--INDEPENDENT 'Stark raving genius'--OBSERVER 'To call Rankin irreverent doesn't begin to describe just how very good he is at playing with the rules'--DAILY MIRROR
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