The Mechanical Messiah And Other Marvels Of The Modern Age

Author : Robert Rankin
Publisher : Gollancz
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780575086395

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The Mechanical Messiah and Other Marvels of the Modern Age by Robert Rankin Pdf

Colonel Katterfelto has lately returned to London. He departed America under something of a cloud ... of smoke, issuing from his Spiritual Laboratory, which the townsfolk of Wormcast, Arizona, marched upon with their flaming torches. This catastrophic conflagration caused considerable concern to the pious colonel, who had been engaged in the creation of 'Heaven's last and best gift to Mankind', The Mechanical Messiah. And he was, after all, being guided in this Great Work by holy angels, communicating to him through his monkey butler, Darwin. It is 1897, twelve years since The War of the Worlds and two since Worlds War Two*. The British Empire encompasses Mars, and an uneasy peace exists between the peoples of Venus, Jupiter and Earth. In London there are many marvels of the modern age to be experienced. Amongst these is The Electric Alhambra Music Hall, where crowds thrill to The Earl Grey Whistle Test, a musical extravaganza featuring such top turns as Hayward's Acrobatic Kiwis, The Travelling Formbys and the newly-arrived Colonel Katterfelto's Clockwork Minstrels. But all is far from well in old Whitechapel, where a monster is once more abroad in the night-time streets, committing hideous acts of murder. Can this be the return of Jack the Ripper, or has something altogether unearthly materialised to spread fear, panic and mayhem? Something Hellishly evil? Famed consulting detective Cameron Bell is already on the case, but it may take nothing less than the New Messiah Himself to save London, The Empire and all of the solar system from the impending apocalypse! 'Stark raving genius' Observer *See The Japanese Devil Fish Girl and other Unnatural Attractions.

Author : Robert Rankin
Publisher : Gollancz
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780575086449

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The Educated Ape and Other Wonders of the Worlds by Robert Rankin Pdf

An epic in four movements, this is the third book in Robert Rankin's highly acclaimed meta-Victorian series. Comparable to Pratchett or Douglas Adams, the Father of Far Fetched Fiction has pulled out all of the stops with this riotous tale of wicked women, a dangerous detective and Darwin the educated ape. Lord Brentford has a dream. To create a Grand Exposition that will showcase The Wonders of the Worlds and encourage peace between the inhabited planets of Venus, Jupiter and Earth. Ernest Rutherford has a dream. To construct a time ship, powered by the large hadron collider he has built beneath the streets of London. Cameron Bell is England's greatest detective and he, too, has a dream. To solve the crime of the century before it takes place, without blowing up any more of London's landmarks. Darwin is a monkey butler and he also has a dream. To end Man's inhumanity to Monkey and bring a little joy into the world. Lavinia Dharkstorrm has a dream of her own. Although hers is more of a nightmare. To erase Man and Monkey alike from the face of the Earth and to hasten in the End of Days. Then there is the crime-fighting superlady, all those chickens from the past and the unwelcome arrival of The Antichrist. Things are looking rather grim on planet Earth.

Author : Don D'Ammassa
Publisher : Infobase Learning
Page : 2061 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-22
Category : Fantasy fiction, American
ISBN : 9781438140636

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Encyclopedia of Fantasy and Horror Fiction by Don D'Ammassa Pdf

Presents articles on the horror and fantasy genres of fiction, including authors, themes, significant works, and awards.

Author : Robert Rankin
Publisher : Gollancz
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780575086807

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The Japanese Devil Fish Girl and Other Unnatural Attractions by Robert Rankin Pdf

The pickled Martian's tentacles are fraying at the ends and Professor Coffin's Most Meritorious Unnatural Attraction (the remains of the original alien autopsy, performed by Sir Frederick Treves at the London Hospital) is no longer drawing the crowds. It's 1895; nearly a decade since Mars invaded Earth, chronicled by H.G. Wells in THE WAR OF THE WORLDS. Wrecked Martian spaceships, back-engineered by Charles Babbage and Nikola Tesla, have carried the Queen's Own Electric Fusiliers to the red planet, and Mars is now part of the ever-expanding British Empire. The less-than-scrupulous sideshow proprietor likes Off-worlders' cash, so he needs a sensational new attraction. Word has reached him of the Japanese Devil Fish Girl; nothing quite like her has ever existed before. But Professor Coffin's quest to possess the ultimate showman's exhibit is about to cause considerable friction amongst the folk of other planets. Sufficient, in fact, to spark off Worlds War Two.

Author : Robert Rankin
Publisher : Gollancz
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2009-12-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780575086791

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Retromancer by Robert Rankin Pdf

There is big and evil magic abroad upon the face of the Earth. History has been changed. The Germans have won WWII. America is a nuclear wasteland. And worst of all, the breakfast menu at The Wife's Legs Café in Brentford is serving Bratwurst rather than the proper big boys' British banger. Something is Not Right. And when the world's all wrong and it needs setting right, who're you gonna call? Hugo Rune, that's who. A man who offers the world his genius, and asks only, in return, that the world cover his expenses. And so, with the aid of his faithful acolyte and companion Rizla, the guru's guru, also known as the hokus bloke, the Lad Himself and the Retromancer*, sets out to rewrite history the way it should be. Together they return to war-torn London, to solve the twelve cosmic conundra based on Hugo Rune's personal tarot deck, each one leading them closer to a final terrifying confrontation. They must match their wits against beautiful spies, advanced alien technology, killer robots and death rays, do battle with an ancient god, and come face to face once more with Hugo Rune's arch-enemy, the sinister Count Otto Black, all the while finding time to drink ale, talk the toot and dine out in some of London's swankiest eateries. Without ever paying the bill.

Author : Robert Rankin
Publisher : Gollancz
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : End of the world
ISBN : 0575082402

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Necrophenia by Robert Rankin Pdf

A monster in human form intends to turn Earth into a Necrosphere, a planet totally devoid of life. And there's a lost city of gold and there's millions of zombies, as well as gratuitous sex and violence, beautiful but dangerous dames, a trail of corpses-- and, of course, a really spectacular rooftop showdown.

Author : Walter M. Miller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Fiction in English
ISBN : PSU:000028922933

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A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Pdf

Author : Robert Rankin
Publisher : Random House
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Computer software industry
ISBN : 9780552145800

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The Dance of the Voodoo Handbag by Robert Rankin Pdf

Originally published: London: Doubleday, 1998.

Author : Paul Severing
Publisher : IndyPublish.com
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2006-06-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1428010289

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Marvels of Modern Science by Paul Severing Pdf

The purpose of this little book is to give a general idea of a few of the great achievements of our time. Within such a limited space it was impossible to even mention thousands more of the great inventions and triumphs which mark the rushing progress of the world in the present century; therefore, only those subjects have been treated which appeal with more than passing interest to all. For instance, the flying machine is engaging the attention of the old, the young and the middle-aged, and soon the whole world will be on the wing. Radium, "the revealer," is opening the door to possibilities almost beyond human conception. Wireless Telegraphy is crossing thousands of miles of space with invisible feet and making the nations of the earth as one. 'Tis the same with the other subjects, - one and all are of vital, human interest, and are extremely attractive on account of their importance in the civilization of today. Mighty, sublime, wonderful, as have been the achievements of past science, as yet we are but on the verge of the continents of discovery. Where is the wizard who can tell what lies in the womb of time? Just as our conceptions of many things have been revolutionized in the past, those which we hold to-day of the cosmic processes may have to be remodeled in the future.

Author : Robert Rankin
Publisher : Doubleday UK
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015049689121

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Waiting for Godalming by Robert Rankin Pdf

God's other son, Colin, who was edited out of the Bible when Jesus got artistic control, is a bit pissed off. Well wouldn't you be, with your brother stealing the lime-light like that? But now God's been murdered, and there's no way Colin's gonna let the meek inherit the Earth. He's in charge now.

Author : Robert Jeschonek
Publisher : Fantasy Flight Games
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011-07-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1616611804

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Tannhauser by Robert Jeschonek Pdf

The year is 1954, and in a dark and violent alternate history, the Great War never ended. The forces of the Reich, led by the occult-obsessed Kaiser, have sold their souls to demonic powers as they scour the earth in search of paranormal weaponry. Meanwhile, President Edison has sanctioned the use of potent alien technology.

Author : James E. Talmage
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 726 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783732625840

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Jesus the Christ by James E. Talmage Pdf

Reproduction of the original.

Author : Ralph P. Locke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107012370

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Music and the Exotic from the Renaissance to Mozart by Ralph P. Locke Pdf

Ralph P. Locke provides fresh insights into Western culture's increasing awareness of ethnic Otherness during the years 1500-1800.

Author : Ursula K. Le Guin
Publisher : Outspoken Authors
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1604864036

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The Wild Girls by Ursula K. Le Guin Pdf

Winner of: Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, National Book Foundation Newly revised and presented here in book form for the first time, this Nebula Award-winning story tells of two captive "dirt children" in a society of sword and silk, whose determination to find a glimpse of justice leads to a violent and loving end. Also included is the nonfiction essay "Staying Awake While We Read" which demolishes the pretensions of corporate publishing and the basic assumptions of capitalism, and "Outspoken Author Interview," which reveals the hidden dimensions of America's best-known sci-fi author.

Author : Raoul Vaneigem
Publisher : PM Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781604867824

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Revolution of Everyday Life by Raoul Vaneigem Pdf

Originally published just months before the May 1968 upheavals in France, Raoul Vaneigem’s The Revolution of Everyday Life offered a lyrical and aphoristic critique of the “society of the spectacle” from the point of view of individual experience. Whereas Debord’s masterful analysis of the new historical conditions that triggered the uprisings of the 1960s armed the revolutionaries of the time with theory, Vaneigem’s book described their feelings of desperation directly, and armed them with “formulations capable of firing point-blank on our enemies.” “I realise,” writes Vaneigem in his introduction, “that I have given subjective will an easy time in this book, but let no one reproach me for this without first considering the extent to which the objective conditions of the contemporary world advance the cause of subjectivity day after day.” Vaneigem names and defines the alienating features of everyday life in consumer society: survival rather than life, the call to sacrifice, the cultivation of false needs, the dictatorship of the commodity, subjection to social roles, and above all the replacement of God by the Economy. And in the second part of his book, “Reversal of Perspective,” he explores the countervailing impulses that, in true dialectical fashion, persist within the deepest alienation: creativity, spontaneity, poetry, and the path from isolation to communication and participation. For “To desire a different life is already that life in the making.” And “fulfillment is expressed in the singular but conjugated in the plural.” The present English translation was first published by Rebel Press of London in 1983. This new edition of The Revolution of Everyday Life has been reviewed and corrected by the translator and contains a new preface addressed to English-language readers by Raoul Vaneigem. The book is the first of several translations of works by Raoul Vaneigem that PM Press plans to publish in uniform volumes. Vaneigem’s classic work is to be followed by The Knight, the Lady, the Devil, and Death (2003) and The Inhumanity of Religion (2000).