The Educated Ape and Other Wonders of the Worlds

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Product Description The year is 1899 and the world is coming to an end. An epic in four movements, this is the third book in Robert Rankin's highly acclaimed meta-Victorian series, after Japanese Devil Fish Girl and The Mechanical Messiah   Comparable to Terry Pratchett or Douglas Adams, the father of far-fetched fiction has pulled out all of the stops with this riotous tale of wicked women, a dangerous detective, and Darwin, the educated ape. Lord Brentford has a dream: to create a Grand Exposition that will showcase the wonders of the worlds and encourage peace between the inhabited planets of Venus, Jupiter, and Earth. Ernest Rutherford has a dream: to construct a time ship, powered by the large hadron collider he has built beneath the streets of London. Cameron Bell is England's greatest detective and he, too, has a dream: to solve the crime of the century before it takes place, without blowing up any more of London's landmarks. Darwin is a monkey butler and even he has a dream: to end man's inhumanity to monkey and bring a little joy into the world. Lavinia Dharkstorrm has a dream of her own, although hers is more of a nightmare: to erase man and monkey alike from the face of the Earth and to hasten in the End of Days. Then there is the crime-fighting superlady, all those chickens from the past, and the unwelcome arrival of the Antichrist. Things are looking rather grim on planet Earth. Review "Gleeful anarchy . . . you're bound to have a favorite character to follow."  — San Francisco Book Review on The Mechanical Messiah and Other Marvels of the Modern Age "It's easy to see why Rankin has a huge cult following. Drawing on a rich vein of English humour that encompasses Python, Adams and Stanshall, his comedy-fantasies are filled with pop culture references, music hall wordplay and ironic quips galore."  — BBC magazine on The Japanese Devil Fish Girl and Other Unnatural Attractions "The publisher describes Rankin as a 'beloved British Eccentric.' Wrong. He's a total wack job. But if you can understand him, you'll find, oddly enough, that the more you think about it, the funnier it gets."  — Kirkus Reviews on Necrophenia About the Author Robert Rankin is the author of The Brightonomicon, The Da-Da-De-Da-Da Code, Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse, The Japanese Devil Fish Girl and Other Unnatural Attractions, Knees Up Mother Earth, The Mechanical Messiah and Other Marvels of the Modern Age, Necrophenia, Retromancer, The Toyminator, and The Witches of Chiswick.

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