Outrageous Fortune: A NovelRandom House Worlds, 29.5.2007 - 400 sivua In this outrageously funny, outrageously inventive debut, one of the most outrageously talented new writers to break onto the sci-fi scene in decades asks the most loaded question of all . . . “Don’t you hate it when this happens?” . . . that’s what the business card asks Jonny X67, dream architect to the rich and jaded. It’s all the thieves who stole his house left behind. And if that weren’t bad enough, a saleswoman named Caroline E61 drops from the sky to sell him a set of encyclopedias and won’t take no for an answer. Can his luck get any worse? In this rip-roaring roller-coaster ride through a brilliantly imagined future of paranoid absurdity, Jonny X will learn the answer soon enough when he falls afoul of a lunatic motorcycle gang nicknamed the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, a relentless Belgian assassin, and his own irate girlfriend. Traversing a cityscape whose neighborhoods are organized by musical genres, running into joke-telling elevators and holographic computer viruses, Jonny is about to learn what a nightmare it’s going to be to get his old life back in a reality warping faster than the speed of the imagination. Outrageous Fortune heralds a marvelous new talent sure to be delightfully altering the minds of readers for years to come. |
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Sivu 141 - Whose limbs were made in England, show us here The mettle of your pasture ; let us swear That you are worth your breeding : which I doubt not; For there is none of you so mean and base, That hath not noble lustre in your eyes. I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,* Straining upon the start. The game's afoot ; Follow your spirit : and, upon this charge, Cry — God for Harry ! England ! and Saint George ! [Exeunt . Alarum, and Chambers go off.
Sivu 143 - Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead ! In peace, there's nothing so becomes a man, As modest stillness, and humility : But when the blast of war...
Sivu 47 - And behold a pale horse, and he that sat upon him, his name was Death, and hell followed him. And power was given to him over the four parts of the earth, to kill with sword, with famine, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
Sivu 145 - I shall tell you one thing more: the play's the thing wherein we'll catch the conscience of the king.
Sivu 68 - I think that's largely true, but I don't want you to lose sight of the fact that it has happened to this industry.
Sivu 164 - Then, in one catlike movement, he sprang up out of the window and pulled himself up on top of the air-con unit. He smiled, then tilted his head with surprise. "Service is overdue by twelve years, two months, and six days," sang the air-con unit, as it jolted into life again.
Sivu 138 - My life is fucked up in a complicated way and I think you are the only person who can help me right now. Is the Pit really not usable at all?
Sivu 116 - Sarah eased up behind a gaggle of slower bikes and I wondered how long it had been since she had been to Mat's.