Si vous essayez de superposer une mappemonde sur un globe terrestre de même échelle, vous verrez que c'est impossible. Pour que cela fonctionne, il faudrait que le globe soit 30 % plus grand. Pourquoi ? Parce qu'un tiers de notre planète est caché dans des Zones Interdites. C'est dans une de ces zones, le parking perdu, que se trouve la voiture inventée par Hugo Rune et qui marche à l'eau... Coup de chance, Tuppe et Cornélius vont réussir à pénétrer dans cette Zone. Pas de bol, ils ne ramènent pas que la voiture... D'un seul coup, l'avenir du monde est en jeu et repose sur les épaules des deux jeunes héros épiques. Mais si vous pensez qu'ils ont une chance de s'en sortir, c'est que vous croyez au Père Noël... Remarquez, si vous achetez ce bouquin, nous allons peut-être commencer à y croire aussi !
Robert Rankin Livres
Robert Rankin se décrit comme un conteur d'histoires extravagantes, animé par l'ambition de créer un genre littéraire entièrement nouveau, qu'il a baptisé « Far-Fetched Fiction ». Son but était de se tailler une place unique. Rankin est célèbre pour ses romans humoristiques de science-fiction, caractérisés par leur fantaisie débordante et une approche narrative distinctive.







East Of Ealing
- 288pages
- 11 heures de lecture
'Ahead, where once had been only bombsite land, the Lateinos and Romiith building rose above Brentford. Within its cruel and jagged shadow, magnolias wilted in their window boxes and synthetic Gold Top became doorstep cheese...'Something sinister is happening east of Ealing.
Darwin, the Educated Ape, sets off on another madcap adventure through time, space and chickens in the conclusion to Robert Rankin's series of steampunk adventures.
The Sprouts Of Wrath
- 285pages
- 10 heures de lecture
No, this time, to save the world as we know it, the lads must contemplate - nay, undertake - the most horrible, the most terrifying, the heretofore untried - REGULAR EMPLOYMENT!!!
The Brentford Triangle
- 240pages
- 9 heures de lecture
I should never have got up so early today and all over Brentford electrical appliances were beginning to fail...'Could it be that Pooley and Omally, whilst engaged on a round of allotment golf, mistook laser-operated gravitational landing beams for the malignant work of Brentford Council?
The Brentford Chain-Store Massacre
- 365pages
- 13 heures de lecture
There is nothing more powerful than a bad idea whose time has come. And there can be few ideas less bad or more potentially apocalyptic than that hatched by genetic scientist Dr Stephen Malone.
When Rex is confronted with The Singular Case of the Purloined Presliana, and the Luminous Order of the Sacred Sprout, he realises things are getting out of control...
An epic in four movements, this is the third book in Robert Rankin's highly acclaimed meta-Victorian series. Comparable to Pratchett or Douglas Adams, the Father of Far Fetched Fiction has pulled out all of the stops with this riotous tale of wicked women, a dangerous detective and Darwin the educated ape. Lord Brentford has a dream. To create a Grand Exposition that will showcase The Wonders of the Worlds and encourage peace between the inhabited planets of Venus, Jupiter and Earth. Ernest Rutherford has a dream. To construct a time ship, powered by the large hadron collider he has built beneath the streets of London. Cameron Bell is England's greatest detective and he, too, has a dream. To solve the crime of the century before it takes place, without blowing up any more of London's landmarks. Darwin is a monkey butler and he also has a dream. To end Man's inhumanity to Monkey and bring a little joy into the world. Lavinia Dharkstorrm has a dream of her own. Although hers is more of a nightmare. To erase Man and Monkey alike from the face of the Earth and to hasten in the End of Days. Then there is the crime-fighting superlady, all those chickens from the past and the unwelcome arrival of The Antichrist. Things are looking rather grim on planet Earth.
Another wild and wacky adventure from the Master of Far Fetched Fiction!
Knees Up Mother Earth
- 384pages
- 14 heures de lecture
There's big trouble in little Brentford. Property developers are planning to destroy the borough's beloved football ground and build executive homes on the site. Shock! Outrage! Horror! Something must be done to halt this iconoclasm. The lads of The Flying Swan, Brentford's most celebrated drinking house, take up the challenge. Norman the corner shopkeeper has some ideas. He's recently discovered a Victorian computer which holds the plans to the secret super-technology of a bygone age. And Archroy, Brentford's lone yachtsman and explorer, has just returned from his seventh voyage, bringing with him the fabled Golden Fleece. There's Jim Pooley and John Omally, unemployed batchelors of this parish. And that Victorian time traveller who's crash-landed on the allotments. Surely with all these stalwarts working for the cause, Brentford's football ground can be saved? Would it were so, but this is Brentford and ancient forces of evil are forever stirring in the borough. Old Testament terrors, Lovecraftian loathsomes and beasties from the bottomless pit. And if the team make it through to the final, it's going to be a match that no one will forget. What with the fate of mankind hanging upon the result. And everything. In this, the first ever Book of Brentford, which is also the second book in The Witches of Chiswick trilogy, the Father of Far Fetched Fiction spins an epic yarn which will no doubt become a modern classic.
