Whoops, the release date of this completely passed me by. Here's the
link if you want to buy Tim's novel
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Outrageous-Fortune-Tim-Scott/dp/0553384406/

I've been told it's good.

jim

--- In dtbgroup@yahoogroups.com, "ric" <richardthomasfoames@...>
wrote:
>
> 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
>