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YOU ARE NOW LEAVING THE AGE OF AQUARIUS PLEASE LOWER YOUR SEAT WHEN RISING FROM YOUR HEAD.
It was something to do with the cycles of history. The way great civilizations rise and fall. Golden ages and dark ages. Things of that nature.
Few people noticed at first. The changes. They were subtle to begin with. Like when the Leader of the Opposition challenged the PM to step outside and settle things man to man. And the PM agreed. Or the way the baked ham rose up against Dave while he was standing in the check-out queue at Budgens. Small things. But they just kept getting bigger.
And by the time everyone realized that something very strange was going on, it was all too late.
The Earth had left behind the age of science and reason and moved once more into a time of myth. A time of legend and heroes. Of romance and wizardry and wonder.
It was a time to take the mother of all giant leaps and enter -
THE GARDEN OF UNEARTHLY DELIGHTS
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This book was my introduction to Robert Rankin. I read it for the first time in '96 and I recently re-read it. And it was just as enjoyable as the first time.
Due to a reality fracture the world leaves the age of science and enters the time of legends and myths where the formerly chronically unemployed (and for some mysterious reason recipient of the Queen's Award for Industry award) Maxwell Karrion finds himself Max Carrion, Imagineer. Carrion has to set out on a quest to do the bidding of an evil magician and here he encounters such things as traveling TVs, a bus whorshipping cult, news crumpets and barrack-room smut dressed up as arcane knight-speak.
I've only read two other books by Rankin and they were rather disappointing compared to this one ('The Greatest Show off Earth', 'Apocalypso'). I have high hopes for the Brentford books, however. Anyway, my advice is that if you haven't read anything by Robert Rankin before you could do a lot worse than starting with this one.
Thankfully after a hundred pages of this the plot finally kicks into gear, as Max has his soul stolen by a magician, and is sent on a quest to recover a mechanical woman to save his life. From here on in The Garden of Unearthly Delights is pretty much flawless, as Max encounters such various threats as the rat-like Skaven (freely nicked by Rankin from the Warhammer games) and a very Monty Python-ish section where a bunch of effete knights use such impenetrable vernacular as "Me thinks Lord Percy has a swidgen for a billydock". Rankin wraps his plot up with some fantastic twists, as the true nature of this new fantasy world is revealed, and Max's vital contribution in the books early chapters makes for a clever dénouement as Rankin reveals just what is going on.
The early aimlessness of the novel just stops it from getting the full five stars, but The Garden of Unearthly Delights is still a treat - one of Rankin's best book, and a perfect one for new-comers to try out, especially Pratchett fans looking for something smuttier, more inventive, and funnier...
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