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Description: ISBN 0575075457 / Author: Robert Rankin / Genre: Fiction / Robert Rankin's fondness for demented conspiracy theories is complicated by time travel in The Witches of Chiswick--which demonstrates again that everything you know is wrong, that Brentford is the true centre of the ... more Newest Review: ... unfunny authorial digressions and euphemisms for the male member. I have never read anything aimed more solidly at the ... more |
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by andrewl - written on 03/07/06 (Very useful, 55 readings)
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Imagine we have been lied to and that all the fantasy fiction of the Victorian era was in fact true. That 19th Century England was in fact full of airships and automata, where Oscar Wilde was a notorious ladies' man and Queen Victoria was the Empire Bike. Airships and automata are familiar enough to any reader of alternative histories. They crop up in anything where Rome didn't fall or the Nazis weren't defeated. To combine this kind of earnest but far-fetched academic speculation with outrageous humour should be a sure-fire hit. And I suspect it would be if it was written by anyone other than Robert Rankin. A man who must surely only ...
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