Armageddon: The Musical, 9780552136815
Paperback
It is the year 2050 and the soap opera "The Earthers" is making big video bucks in the intergalactic ratings race. Alien TV executives know exactly what the old earth drama needs to make the off-world audience sit up and stare-a spectacular Armageddon-type finale.

Armageddon: The Musical

the musical

  • Paperback

    330 pages

  • Release Date

    25 April 1991

Summary

From the point of view of 2050, you’re history Theological warfare. Elvis on an epic time-travel journey - the Presliad. Buddhavision - a network bigger than God (and more powerful, too). Nasty nuclear leftovers. Naughty sex habits. Dalai Dan (the 153rd reincarnation of the Lama of that ilk) and Barry, the talkative Time Sprout. Even with all this excitement, you wouldn’t think a backwater planet like Earth makes much of a splash in the galatic pond. But the soap opera called The Earthers…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780552136815
ISBN-10:0552136816
Author:Robert Rankin
Publisher:Corgi Books
Imprint:Corgi Books
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:330
Release Date:25 April 1991
Weight:172g
Dimensions:21mm x 135mm x 182mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

‘One of the rare guys who can always make me laugh’

”‘One of the rare guys who can always make me laugh’” – Terry Pratchett “‘To the top-selling ranks of humorists such as Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett, let us welcome Mr Rankin’” – Tom Hutchinson The Times “‘He crams enough gags into Armageddon the Musical to last anyone else for a trilogy. And nothing’s sacred. So buy this quick, before he ends up sleeping in Salman Rushdie’s spare bedroom’” – Terry Pratchett

About The Author

Robert Rankin

Robert Rankin is the author of Web Site Story, Waiting for Godalming, Sex and Drugs and Sausage Rolls, Snuff Fiction, Apocalypso, The Dance of the Voodoo Handbag, Sprout Mask Replica, Nostradamus Ate My Hamster, A Dog Called Demolition, The Garden of Unearthly Delights, The Most Amazing Man Who Ever Lived, The Greatest Show Off Earth, Raiders of the Lost Car Park, The Book of Ultimate Truths, the Armageddon quartet (three books), and the Brentford trilogy (five books) which are all published by Corgi Books. Robert Rankin’s latest novel, The Fandom of the Operator, is now available as a Doubleday hardback. For more information on Robert Rankin and his books, see his website at

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