|
by: Robert Rankin
List Price: $13.99Amazon.com's Price: $11.89 You Save: $2.10 (15%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN: 9780552136815
ISBN: 0552136816
Label: Transworld Publishers
Manufacturer: Transworld Publishers
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 336
Publication Date: April 01, 1991
Publisher: Transworld Publishers
Sales Rank: 322848
Studio: Transworld Publishers
Related Items:
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF 2050, YOU'RE HISTORY
Theological warfare. Elvis on an epic time-travel journey the Presliad. Buddhavision - a network bigger than God (and more powerful, too). Nasty nuclear leftovers. Naughty sex habits. Dalai Dan (the 153rd reincarnation of the Lama of that ilk) and Barry, the talkative Time Sprout. Even with all this excitement, you wouldn't think a backwater planet like Earth makes much of a splash in the galactic pond.
But the soap opera called The Earthers is making big video bucks in the intergalactic ratings race. And alien TV execs know exactly what the old earth drama needs to make the off-world audience sit up and stare: a spectacular Armageddon-type finale. With a cast of millions - including you! DON'T TOUCH THAT DIAL - IT'S GONNA BE A HELLUVA SHOW!
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Extremely funny and intelligent 'fantasy'
For all fans of comic literature, Robert Rankin does the goods. This is an extremely funny and weird book, which is also quite intelligently construed. I think some of Rankin's other works are even more funny, but all in all this book is miles ahead of most other works in the genre. If you like Terry Pratchett, you will definitely enjoy all of Rankin's books, and maybe even prefer the self-consciousness of his works over others. Very much recommended.
Rating:  - Elvis, a time sprout and Rex Mundi
All I can say is that this is one of the funniest books I have ever read! Not only that it is also possessed of a plot so complex that it only makes any kind of sense at all when you reach the grand finale but it also has so many running gags concerning "that amazing rotary machine gun that Blaine used in Predator" that every time you watch said film you will have a smile on your face. I have read many humourous sci-fi books in my time but this one had me laughing out loud whilst sitting on a ... Read More
Rating: - READ MY BOOK!!
LOOK, CHEEZMOS--READ MY BOOK! READ IT!! READ IT NOW!! DO IT!
Rating: - Madness.. utter Madness
Rankin has been compared to Pratchett and Adams.. this is unfair. Rankin is Rankin in the same way as Pratchett is Pratchett, they shouldn't be compared because although both are brilliant they are brilliant in quite astoundingly different ways. All of Rankin's books have a different feel to them, and if you didn't know, you could swear that some were written by different authors.. but despite that there are always those rankin touches.. the Running Gag.. oh how we love the running gag.. not ... Read More
Rating: - Only two books have made me laugh out loud, this is one
It is hard to find a book, whereby you can say to people that it has made you laugh out loud, well this one plus Armagedon 2: They Came and Ate Us, probably the pre-curser to Truman,take the preverbial biscuit and without doubt a must read for anyone. Falls in with the other great talent of Douglas Adams, and Terry Pratchett.
|
