by Robert Rankin · Corgi Adult · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780552139243
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«The Greatest Show Off Earth» is the science fiction and fantasy novel by Robert Rankin, published by Corgi Adult in paperback (320 pages, in English).
Raymond is abducted from his garden by a starfish from Uranus and sold as a delicacy in a Venusian market, but he is rescued by an interplanetary Victorian circus. Professor Merlin sends him to free two hundred people on Saturn and save the Earth before Friday. His friend Simon, accused of murder, falls into the hands of the B.E.A.S.T. cult.
The novel was originally published in 1993; this edition is from 1995.
Recommended for those seeking a read of absurd humor and comic fantasy, without taking anything seriously.
Robert Fleming Rankin is a prolific British author of comedic fantasy novels. Born in Parsons Green, London, he started writing in the late 1970s, and first entered the bestsellers lists with Snuff Fiction in 1999, by which time his previous eighteen books had sold around one million copies. His books are a mix of science fiction, fantasy, the occult, urban legends, running gags, metafiction, steampunk and outrageous characters. According to the biography printed in some Corgi editions of his books, Rankin refers to his style as 'Far Fetched Fiction' in the hope that bookshops will let him have a section to himself. Many of Rankin's books are bestsellers.
