- Fiction, science fiction, general, Humorous stories, Suspense fiction
"'The flight was uneventful enough, except the pilot accidentally touched down at a slightly wrong airport and forgot to lower the landing gear, so we left the plane by way of the emergency chute, which somebody forgot to inflate, and I lost my shoes.'" "Welcome to the future, where incompetence is a way of life."
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Contemporary, unpretentious, cool and classical in form.
- contemporarynostalgic
- unpretentiousprestige
- cooloverwhelming
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
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About the book
- Author
- Rob Grant
- First published
- December 31, 2003
- Pages
- 288
- Publisher
- Gollancz, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780575127609
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