The Japanese Devil Fish Girl and Other Unnatural Attractions by Robert Rankin - ISBN: 9780575088542
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Victorian sideshow seeks a Martian sensation, and ignites interplanetary war.

The Japanese Devil Fish Girl and Other Unnatural Attractions

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  • Paperback

    400 pages

  • Release Date

    11 October 2011

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Summary

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 th…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780575088542
ISBN-10:0575088540
Author:Robert Rankin
Publisher:Orion Publishing Co
Imprint:Gollancz
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:400
Release Date:11 October 2011
Weight:280g
Dimensions:196mm x 130mm x 30mm
Series:Gollancz
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Critics Review

A phantasmagorical cornucopia of Wellsian whimsy, dizzying intergalactical intrigue and daring doings that seldom fails to divert, delight and amuse. * WAR-OFTHE-WORLDS.CO.UK *

About The Author

Robert Rankin

Robert Rankin is the author of THE HOLLOW CHOCOLATE BUNNIES OF THE APOCALYPSE, THE TOYMINATOR, KNEES UP MOTHER EARTH, THE BRIGHTONOMICON, THE WITCHES OF CHISWICK, THE DA-DA-DE-DA-DA CODE, NECROPHENIA and RETROMANCER. He lives in Brighton.

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