Robert Rankin
Birth date: July 27, 1949
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Earlier this year, someone on an online forum I frequent offered to send a mystery box of books to anyone who would be willing to pay to have them shipped. Given that I like free books, I had read enough of this person's reviews to know he had good taste in fiction, and I always like to discover ne...
OK, I get it. Rankin's stories are undoubtedly cleverer than they first seem. The Fandom of the Operator, a story in part about fans and fannishness and the death of a revered author (sadly apposite given this week's events; but then books can come to you like that), begins in 1950s Brentford, with ...
Cornelius Murphy and his friend Tuppe set off on an epic adventure to find the missing papers of self-proclaimed Grand Master of Everything, Hugo Artemis Solon Saturnicus Reginald Arthur Rune's book; The Book of Ultimate Truths. Starting out in Scotland, ready to buy the remaining items of an estate...
Probably one too many in the series, but a good yarn nonetheless. Darwin is, as he will ever remain, a wonderfully thought-through character, preferable to many of the so-called Sapiens I have encountered.
That was entertaining though what I really like is a bit more depth to my reading. It's the sort of book I would read if I had a long commute and wanted to relax with nothing much on my mind. Rankin serves up genre candy - a mix of sci-fi, fantasy and detective novel in an exotic but nevertheless fa...
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