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Quiet, the Tin Can Brains are Hunting!
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Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #2824621 in Books
- Published on: 2001-12-10
- Original language: English
- Binding: Paperback
- 160 pages
Editorial Reviews
Synopsis
A universe in danger! Deadly cyborgs! Intergalactic ghosts! Mischief! Crying! In an adventure that spreads its ungainly wings from the far end of the universe to a tidily-managed kitchen in 19th century London, classic pulp heroes Detective Jim Grimmett and Milon the Assassin team up with Nanotus the Giant and Professor Quigg (the noted brain specialist) to save everything that is ' from the ravages of' the Dark Matter Destroyer!!!
From the Publisher
At Silver Age Books we remember the days when we used to buy a novel and read it the same evening. We ache for the classic Panther, Penguin, Orbit and NEL paperbacks of the 1960s and 1970s, for novels like Drunkard's Walk, The Reefs of Space and Foundation, novels we only ever saw on sale second-hand - whole universes packed into less than 200 pages, sealed in a space-black cover. That is the kind of book Silver Age Books wants to publish.
From the Author
This was the second novel I wrote, a follow up of sorts to my first, Professor Challenger in Space. The novel's slightly unusual tripartite structure was originally inspired by the idea I had of basing the story around the three eyes of Edward Malone - parts one and two would recount what his left and right eyes saw upon being stolen and sold to aliens. The third part would have dealt with the robotic eye created for Malone by Professor Challenger. In the end, Malone didn't make it into this novel, and neither did his eyes, but there's still much to enjoy!
Customer Reviews
A book for all to to be in awe of...
Quiet, the Tin Can Brains Are Hunting represents a milestone in the Nonconformist Science-Fantasy literary genre. Imagine, if you will, the comedy of Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett multiplied by the story-telling of Frank Herbert and J.R.R. Tolkien, and you still would not even be glimpsing a fragment of this title's worth. With such mastermind creations as the Travelling Dimension, and the Town of Monkey-Monkey (two monkeys came here once, not just one), this book is, without a doubt, a strong candidate for both the Hugo and Nebula awards. May it rest in the most visible place on your bookshelf for all to see and marvel at.
If you only read one book this incarnation...
Few books can be said to have truly altered the course of humanity.
In decades to come generations of otherwise sober and contented men and women may well feel the anguished pangs of regret - that they had only read "Quiet, the Tin Can Brains are Hunting" while there was still time for the world to change!
S.W. Theaker's latest offering is a mind-expanding, heart-quickening, palm-moistening adventure on a galactic scale, encompassing lofty moral discussion and low humour, leaping from laser battles to tender love scenes, and including more monkeys than you could possibly imagine.
The novel also sees the welcome return of the world's most celebrated scientist's wife, Mrs. Anna Challenger, along with many other famous and infamous characters born of the fecund Theaker imagination.
Read this book. Read the hell out of it.
