by Stephen Clarke · Black Swan · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780552777575
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«A Brief History of the Future» is the humorous science fiction novel by Stephen Clarke, published by Black Swan in paperback (432 pages, in English).
Richie Fisher and his wife Clara win a trip to New York. He discovers in a store a teleportation machine that looks like a microwave and, after testing it with a hamburger, decides to take it back to England thinking about the use criminals could make of it. A satire of the differences between the United States and Great Britain.
The Black Swan edition is from 2011. An earlier version of the story appeared as «Beam me up» in 2004.
For readers who enjoyed «A Year in the Merde» and are looking for another comedy by the same author with a science fiction backdrop.
Stephen Clarke is a British author. He writes mainly about France. He published six novels featuring a British protagonist named Paul West.
