Dimension of Miracles

Dimension of Miracles
Robert Sheckley
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Paperback
h181 x 111mm - 208pg
6 Aug 2020 UK
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9780241472491
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Announced in a thunderclap out of another day' s tedium, hapless New Yorker Tom Carmody learns that he is the winner of the Intergalactic Sweepstake. Accepting with a shrug, he is whipped across the universe to collect his prize. The catch? There' s no way home. Enlisting the help of galactic bureaucrats, planetary engineers and a couple of gods, Carmody embarks on a desperate search for Earth, all the while being pursued by a perplexing predatory creature . . . Often cited as an influence on Douglas Adams, Dimension of Miracles is a masterwork of electric humour that offers an oblique examination of human nature amid the vastness of the cosmos.
Robert Sheckley' s hilarious SF satire. Douglas Adams said it was the only thing like Hitchhiker' s Guide to the Galaxy, written ten years earlier. It' s a wonderful thing -- Neil Gaiman Robert Sheckley is one of the great funny writers -- Douglas Adams Robert Sheckley is the greatest entertainer ever produced by modern science fiction . . . what a feast of wit and intelligence he lays out -- J. G Ballard A sort of intergalactic Alice in Wonderland . . . quite remarkably funny * Daily Telegraph *
Robert Sheckley (1928 - 2005) was an American science-fiction writer whose utterly original work is noted for its merging of quick wit, philosophical musing and dark satire. His novel, Dimension of Miracles (1968), is often cited as an influence on Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker' s Guide to the Galaxy. In 2001, he was made Author Emeritus by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.
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ISBN-13: 9780241472491
Published: 6 Aug 2020
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Publisher: Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
Height: 181mm
Width: 111mm
Spine: 12mm
Weight: 125g
Pages: 208

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