by RobertRankin (Author)
We have all been lied to. A great and sinister conspiracy exists to keep us from uncovering the truth about our past. Have you ever wondered how Victorians like Jules Verne and H.G. Wells dreamed up all that fantastic futuristic fiction? Did it ever occur to you that it might just have been based upon fact? That War Of The Worlds was a true account of real events? That Captain Nemo's Nautilus even now lies rusting at the bottom of the North Sea? That there really was an invisible man? And what about the other stuff? Did you know that Queen Victoria had a sexual relationship with Dr Watson, partner of the real-life detective Sherlock Holmes? Or that the elephant man was a product of an E.T./human hybridisation programme? Or that Jack the Ripper was a terminator robot sent from the future? Read on: and learn how a cabal of Victorian Witches from the Chiswick Townswomen's Guild, working with advanced Babbage super-computers, rewrote 19th Century history, and how a 21st Century boy called Will Starling uncovered the truth about everything.
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 368
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Gollancz
Published: 01 Aug 2003
ISBN 10: 0575073144
ISBN 13: 9780575073142
Book Overview: Robert Rankin is the second highest selling writer of funny fantasy in Britain THE HOLLOW CHOCLATE BUNNIES OF THE APOCALYPSE sold 15,000 copies in harcover THE WITCHES OF CHISWICK is a price-promoted hardcover Someone takes a Robert Rankin book out of a library 40 times every day - that's as many as Jane Austen The Brentford Trilogy - five books and counting - has over a million copies in print and is a cult bestseller Rankin sells across Europe, with rights sold in France, Germany, Bulgaria, Poland, Russia and the Czech Republic The very active Robert Rankin fanclub can be found at www.sproutlore.com