by JohnSladek (Author)
Wompler's Walking Babies once put Millford, Utah, on the map. But they aren't selling like they used to. In fact, they aren't selling at all and the only alternative to winding the company up is to tap the government for a research grant. And so Wompler Research Laboratories and Project 32 come into being. The plan is tp produce self-replicating mechanisms; identical cells equipped to repair intracellular breakdowns, convert power from their environment and create new cells. But suddenly the nondescript grey metal boxes start crawling about the laboratory, feeding voraciously on any metal...and multiplying at an alarming rate.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 192
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Gollancz
Published: 20 Jul 2000
ISBN 10: 0575071168
ISBN 13: 9780575071162
Book Overview: * 'Tremendously funny and farcical...torrents of invention and good-humoured malice' Brian W. Aldiss * The first sf novel from one of the funniest and most imaginative of all modern SF writers * 'The best sf I've read since Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle' Punch * 'Brilliant' J. G. Ballard