The Fandom of the Operator
by:
Robert Rankin (author)
Gary Cheese is 19 and works for British Telecom as an operator. His hobbies include watching TV, walking his dog, going down to the pub, and attempting to re-animate the dead.
Gary Cheese is 19 and works for British Telecom as an operator. His hobbies include watching TV, walking his dog, going down to the pub, and attempting to re-animate the dead.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780552148979 (0552148970)
Publish date: May 1st 2002
Publisher: Transworld Publishers
Pages no: 389
Edition language: English
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 ...