![]() ![]() ![]() The plots tend to be similar: one or more evil geniuses have concocted a scheme to End The World as We Know It, often with the help of Powers that Are Better Left Unmentioned Lest they Come When Called. There’s always a bar where everybody hangs out, usually a soccer team (that’s football for our rest-of-the-world friends), often time travel, and a regular cast of characters (Count Otto Black, Hugo Rune, Barry the Alien Sprout, Lazlo Woodbine, and some others I can’t remember off the top of my head). Or “Jasper Fforde with a less disciplined editor”.Īt any rate, Rankin writes funny scifi/fantasy set in England (usually New York City and Hollywood have also turned up). Or “Michael Moorcock when he’s in a funny mode and the Eternal Champion is off roaming in Tanelorn somewhere”. Robert Rankin has been described as “Douglas Adams on crack”. ![]()
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