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Re: Novel?

Its not out till may 29th, sounds like a intresting book though.
Heres what it said on amazon US : -

Book Description
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.

About the Author
Tim Scott is 43. He graduated from Cambridge University, England, and
decided to use his hard fought education to work a plasterer,
decorator and delivery driver.

He writing career began with a training video which warned office
staff that falling over could be dangerous. He then went on to write
and appear on BBC Radio 4 in around fifty comedy half hours—and
finally ended up being given his own late night comedy television
series on network ITV. It ran for twenty six episodes and was so
surreal that even Ionesco or Salvador Dali would have been shaking
their heads in confusion.

He has written a large number of children's books, and also for
children's television. He more recently became a television director
and in 2003 won a BAFTA for co writing and directing a children's
series, "Ripley and Scuff," for the BBC. He likes to travel around
the world, often in search of surf.

Doesn't seem to expensive £5.51 then however much it is for Postage.
not bad.

Ric




Sun Mar 4, 2007 5:07 pm

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Hi all, first post I was searching around and noticed this http:// www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780553384406 Is this the same Tim Scott? I...
Bob
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Jan 10, 2007
6:14 pm

... Looks like it is. Michael Marshall Smith (who was in series 1) has a quote on the front. Some time ago, Tim Scott said he had a novel waiting to be...
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Jan 11, 2007
12:24 pm

... http:// ... but it ... I can confirm it and I will. That's what he said. It had a dollar price on it, does anybody know if it is available in the UK. I...
James Grime
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Jan 11, 2007
6:08 pm

It's on amazon UK, but it says limited availability. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Outrageous-Fortune-Tim-Scott/dp/0553384406/ ...
Bob
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Jan 11, 2007
7:11 pm

... It's on ebay in America already, http://cgi.ebay.com/Outrageous- Fortune-Tim-Scott-07-BRAND-NEW-ARC- ...
Bob
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Mar 3, 2007
3:22 pm

Its not out till may 29th, sounds like a intresting book though. Heres what it said on amazon US : - Book Description In this outrageously funny, outrageously...
ric
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Mar 4, 2007
6:59 pm

Whoops, the release date of this completely passed me by. Here's the link if you want to buy Tim's novel ...
James Grime
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