From: Damien Broderick (thespike@earthlink.net)
Date: Tue Feb 18 2003 - 11:18:52 MST
Again, I hope this heads-up isn't regarded as spam. Apologies if so.
Those industrious folks at Fictionwise have today e-released my novel
STRIPED HOLES, which won an Aussie best of the year award a while back. I
kinda like it. Here's their blurb, which captures the thing well enough:
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Science fiction that makes you grin, and then laugh out loud, is hard to
find. With this very funny short novel, Damien Broderick joined the ranks of
Robert Sheckley, Bob Shaw, John Sladek, Arthur Schopenhauer and Douglas
Adams (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy). Sopwith Hammil is a popular but
rather stupid TV presenter when a time machine lands in his living room. To
save his life and the human race (they're turning the Sun off!), he must
find a wife inside three hours. Meanwhile, 197 years later, in a world that
makes 1984 look like Brave New World, beautiful Hsia Shan-Yun is fighting
the future--and losing. Meanwhile, on Alpha Grommett, two married robots
find their love-life has become depressingly mechanical. Meanwhile, the
wacky astrologer O'Flaherty Gribble has discovered the long-lost secret of
the Callisto Effect. Meanwhile, in a pact with the devil--
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http://www.fictionwise.com/eBooks/eBook9079.htm
Enjoy!
Damien Broderick
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