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Gullible's Travels #1-2
Филидор, джуджето и архонта
Блестящо и остроумно приключение в предпоследната епоха...
Едно пътешествие по сатиричната пътека на Дъглас Адамс, Тери Пратчет и Джак Ванс!
Младото конте Филидор Веш е непрокопсан безделник, доволен от плиткоумните си развлечения. Една простичка задача, възложена му от неговия чичо, надарения с неясно всемогъщество Архонт на Старата Земя, запраща Филидор в безумна одисея по планета, осеяна с чудновати народи. Тормозен на всяка крачка от сприхавото джудже Гаскарт, застрашаван от диви зверове и недружелюбни тълпи, Филидор пътешества против волята си. А в края на пътя го очаква сблъсък с древно и може би гибелно за света зло.
Едно пътешествие по сатиричната пътека на Дъглас Адамс, Тери Пратчет и Джак Ванс!
Младото конте Филидор Веш е непрокопсан безделник, доволен от плиткоумните си развлечения. Една простичка задача, възложена му от неговия чичо, надарения с неясно всемогъщество Архонт на Старата Земя, запраща Филидор в безумна одисея по планета, осеяна с чудновати народи. Тормозен на всяка крачка от сприхавото джудже Гаскарт, застрашаван от диви зверове и недружелюбни тълпи, Филидор пътешества против волята си. А в края на пътя го очаква сблъсък с древно и може би гибелно за света зло.
478 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2001
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About the author
Matthew Hughes
202 books283 followersBorn in Liverpool, his family moved to Canada when he was five years old. Married since late 1960s, he has three grown sons. He is currently relocated to Britain. He is a former director of the Federation of British Columbia Writers.
A university drop-out from a working poor background, he worked in a factory that made school desks, drove a grocery delivery truck, was night janitor in a GM dealership, and did a short stint as an orderly in a private mental hospital. As a teenager, he served a year as a volunteer with the Company of Young Canadians.
He has made his living as a writer all of his adult life, first as a journalist in newspapers, then as a staff speechwriter to the Canadian Ministers of Justice and Environment, and, since 1979, as a freelance corporate and political speechwriter in British Columbia.
His short fiction has appeared in Alfred Hitchcock’s, Asimov’s, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Postscripts, Interzone, and a number of "Year’s Best" anthologies. Night Shade Books published his short story collection, The Gist Hunter and Other Stories, in 2005.
He has won the Arthur Ellis Award from the Crime Writers of Canada, The Endeavour Award for his historical novel What the Wind Brings, and the Global Book Award in the dark fantasy category for The Ghost-Wrangler.
A university drop-out from a working poor background, he worked in a factory that made school desks, drove a grocery delivery truck, was night janitor in a GM dealership, and did a short stint as an orderly in a private mental hospital. As a teenager, he served a year as a volunteer with the Company of Young Canadians.
He has made his living as a writer all of his adult life, first as a journalist in newspapers, then as a staff speechwriter to the Canadian Ministers of Justice and Environment, and, since 1979, as a freelance corporate and political speechwriter in British Columbia.
His short fiction has appeared in Alfred Hitchcock’s, Asimov’s, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Postscripts, Interzone, and a number of "Year’s Best" anthologies. Night Shade Books published his short story collection, The Gist Hunter and Other Stories, in 2005.
He has won the Arthur Ellis Award from the Crime Writers of Canada, The Endeavour Award for his historical novel What the Wind Brings, and the Global Book Award in the dark fantasy category for The Ghost-Wrangler.
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November 8, 2023
Определено има силни попадения... 😂
January 24, 2009
3 stars for: being a book (an omnibus of 2 books actually, the second is a sequel though the first comes to a definitive ending)that was mostly about killing time. But it was an enjoyable way to kill time, so really 3 and a half stars, but this doesn't measure up to a 4 star book, quite.
=Very= Jack Vance like. Not without its charm.
Other work by this author was stronger, like The_Gist_Hunter, which was a 4 star book.
An author I picked up via amazon's always changing but always fruitful information about/contact with like minded customer mechanism.
=Very= Jack Vance like. Not without its charm.
Other work by this author was stronger, like The_Gist_Hunter, which was a 4 star book.
An author I picked up via amazon's always changing but always fruitful information about/contact with like minded customer mechanism.
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