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Robert Rankin
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  • Paperback: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Corgi; New edition edition (6 April 1995)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0552139246
  • ISBN-13: 978-0552139243
  • Product Dimensions: 10.7 x 2.1 x 17.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 313,965 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Raymond's had a rough couple of days. Snatched from his allotment by a flying starfish from Uranus and sold as a delicacy in a Venusian food market, it seems like his luck has changed when he is rescued by the travelling circus. But then this isn't an ordinary circus.

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Raymond's had a rough couple of days. Snatched from his allotment by a flying starfish from Uranus and sold as a delicacy in a Venusian food market, it seems like his luck had changed when he is rescued by the travelling circus.

But then this isn't an ordinary circus; this is the circus of Professor Merlin, which drifts between the planets in a Victorian steamship, a circus whose artistes perform the feats that simply can't be done. And the professor has a little job for Raymond. Release the two hundred people held captive on Saturn and save Planet Earth from extinction by Friday.

Raymond's best friend Simon has been having a rough time too. Hunted by the men in grey, Simon is falsely accused of being a serial killer and is thrown into the clutches of the sinister B.E.A.S.T. (an End Times cult that worships the demonic half-man half-chicken, Sate-Hen).

Even with the book from the future and those villagers with the flaming torches to help them out, getting things sorted by Friday could be cutting it fine...


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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
By Lendrick VINE™ VOICE
Format:Paperback
It pointless trying to comment on the plot of a Robert Rankin book. Suffice to say this is hugey and wildly inventive, peppered with ridiculous running gags and authorial asides, violent, bizarre, totally prepostorous and massivley entertaining.
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An old charter... 12 May 2009
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Y'know, I get to a point where I can't tell if I've read one of Rankin's books or not, but that's ok. I like the familiar feeling, like greeting an old (if somewhat predictable) friend.

In a pub.

With many ales in the offing.
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4 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Hee Hee Hee 15 Sep 1999
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Format:Paperback
Oh how we laughed as a carriage load of commuters looked up in suprise at the young man who had just snorted a load of Fanta out of his nose, all because he was laughing so hard.

The sad thing is, if he'd explained that he was laughing at a character's name, and actually had stated that name, they would have given him withering looks. Instead, he had to pretend to be ill.

It's a very funny book, although not Rankins best. But read it anyway, and if you don't laugh at Long John's last name, you're a better man than I.

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