The Fandom of the Operator
by:
Robert Rankin (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780385602563 (0385602561)
Publish date: November 1st 2001
Publisher: Transworld Publishers
Pages no: 288
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 ...