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Surfers
It's the end of the world. Hang loose!
IT BEGAN with a never-ending cigarette and an orangutan on a bicycle. It ended up somewhere hasbeen singer-songwriter Scott Cantlay could scarcely have imagined, even during the most fevered days of the long-gone 1970s.
For an unlikely adrenaline-addicted, cloven-hooved visitor reveals that Planet Earth is doomed to a bizarre fate. More surprisingly still, Scott may be central to a desperate plan to save it.
There's a major catch, however. For reasons he's less than clear about, this plan involves assembling a band of young musicians and organising the biggest music concert in the history of the world - with barely any warning, during the climax of the world-renowned Edinburgh Festival.
Shadowy forces, meanwhile, seem hell-bent on ensuring Scott and his newfound friends do not succeed. As if achieving the apparently impossible were not enough, he must also deal with alien assassins who think they're in a Guy Ritchie film, simian doppelgangers, terrifying zombie chickens, condescending cats, band frictions, the disapproval of his long-suffering girlfriend, and the wrath of a war-veteran cook who is now his demented manager. All while enlisting the help of his ex-agent - the same man he has accidentally subjected to an inhuman ordeal. It's enough to turn any musician to drink. And Scott Cantlay needs little help in that regard.
One thing is certain. If Scott and Planet Earth's inhabitants are to have a hope of survival, they'll all need to take up surfing in a BIG way!
IT BEGAN with a never-ending cigarette and an orangutan on a bicycle. It ended up somewhere hasbeen singer-songwriter Scott Cantlay could scarcely have imagined, even during the most fevered days of the long-gone 1970s.
For an unlikely adrenaline-addicted, cloven-hooved visitor reveals that Planet Earth is doomed to a bizarre fate. More surprisingly still, Scott may be central to a desperate plan to save it.
There's a major catch, however. For reasons he's less than clear about, this plan involves assembling a band of young musicians and organising the biggest music concert in the history of the world - with barely any warning, during the climax of the world-renowned Edinburgh Festival.
Shadowy forces, meanwhile, seem hell-bent on ensuring Scott and his newfound friends do not succeed. As if achieving the apparently impossible were not enough, he must also deal with alien assassins who think they're in a Guy Ritchie film, simian doppelgangers, terrifying zombie chickens, condescending cats, band frictions, the disapproval of his long-suffering girlfriend, and the wrath of a war-veteran cook who is now his demented manager. All while enlisting the help of his ex-agent - the same man he has accidentally subjected to an inhuman ordeal. It's enough to turn any musician to drink. And Scott Cantlay needs little help in that regard.
One thing is certain. If Scott and Planet Earth's inhabitants are to have a hope of survival, they'll all need to take up surfing in a BIG way!
353 pages, ebook
First published June 20, 2020
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About the author
Ru Pringle
6 books6 followers'Ru Pringle is one of the most interesting and exciting new writers to emerge north of the border since Iain Banks' - Gary Gibson, award-nominated author of Angel Stations, Against Gravity and Stealing Light.
'Rudy Rucker on drugs' - BestSF
Ru Pringle has written for a living since his late teens, beginning with regular features in numerous magazines and newspapers. His critically acclaimed early short fiction was published in Interzone. After several years as a touring musician, he his first two books were published in the summer of 2018: A Time of Ashes and Hunting Gods, the first parts of the fantasy / sf epic Fate and the Wheel. A dark near-future thriller, October Song, followed in October 2018. He is currently editing the centuries-spanning two-part space opera Sanctuary for publishing in Spring 2019.
He lives in the southwest Highlands of Scotland.
'Rudy Rucker on drugs' - BestSF
Ru Pringle has written for a living since his late teens, beginning with regular features in numerous magazines and newspapers. His critically acclaimed early short fiction was published in Interzone. After several years as a touring musician, he his first two books were published in the summer of 2018: A Time of Ashes and Hunting Gods, the first parts of the fantasy / sf epic Fate and the Wheel. A dark near-future thriller, October Song, followed in October 2018. He is currently editing the centuries-spanning two-part space opera Sanctuary for publishing in Spring 2019.
He lives in the southwest Highlands of Scotland.
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June 19, 2020
This book is totally mental. It broke my mind (but in a good way!) Cosmic weirdness with the Edinburgh music scene at its epicentre. It's great fun and really well written. I'd definitely recommend giving it a try, particularly if you enjoy light-hearted science fiction.
June 26, 2020
Hilarious, bizarre, inventive and wonderful!
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