Dimension of Miracles
$21.90
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
20 October 2020
Summary
An outrageous adventure across the stars from the master of witty science fiction.
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, al…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241472491 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0241472490 |
| Author: | Robert Sheckley |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 20 October 2020 |
| Weight: | 128g |
| Dimensions: | 181mm x 113mm x 12mm |
| Series: | Penguin Science Fiction |
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Robert Sheckley is one of the great funny writers
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 *
About The Author
Robert Sheckley
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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