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PublisherRandom House Publishing Group

ISBN-100553589857

ISBN-139780553589856

eBay Product ID (ePID)63318838

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Book TitleOutrageous Fortune : a Novel

Number of Pages416 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicDystopian, Absurdist, Science Fiction / General, Science Fiction / Humorous

Publication Year2008

GenreFiction

AuthorTim Scott

FormatMass Market

Dimensions

Item Height1.1 in

Item Weight8.8 Oz

Item Length7.3 in

Item Width4.2 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

Reviews"The most bizarre, profound and beautiful novel I've read in a long, long time."-Michael Marshall (Smith), author of Blood of Angels "Outrageous Fortune is captivating, absorbing, infuriating and disturbingly funny; it takes you hostage on the very first page and refuses to let you go until all its demands have been met."-Tom Holt, author of In Your Dreams "Diverting..a zany tale of a slippery future shaped by bogus reality and prefab memories...Delightfully droll."-Publishers Weekly "Rarely does a first sf novel have as much energy and creativity as Scott's madcap, mischievously irreverent depiction of a definitely post-postmodern future. Consider this the opening salvo of one of the genre's most promising and original new voices in years."-Booklist "Diverting... [A] delightfully droll sense of humor."-Publishers Weekly "[A] lunatic jaunt through a cartoon future."-Kirkus Reviews From the Trade Paperback edition., "The most bizarre, profound and beautiful novel I've read in a long, long time."-Michael Marshall (Smith), author of Blood of Angels " Outrageous Fortune is captivating, absorbing, infuriating and disturbingly funny; it takes you hostage on the very first page and refuses to let you go until all its demands have been met."-Tom Holt, author of In Your Dreams "Diverting..a zany tale of a slippery future shaped by bogus reality and prefab memories...Delightfully droll."- Publishers Weekly "Rarely does a first sf novel have as much energy and creativity as Scott's madcap, mischievously irreverent depiction of a definitely post-postmodern future. Consider this the opening salvo of one of the genre's most promising and original new voices in years."- Booklist "Diverting... [A] delightfully droll sense of humor."- Publishers Weekly "[A] lunatic jaunt through a cartoon future."- Kirkus Reviews From the Trade Paperback edition., "The most bizarre, profound and beautiful novel I've read in a long, long time."Michael Marshall (Smith), author of Blood of Angels " Outrageous Fortune is captivating, absorbing, infuriating and disturbingly funny; it takes you hostage on the very first page and refuses to let you go until all its demands have been met."Tom Holt, author of In Your Dreams "Diverting..a zany tale of a slippery future shaped by bogus reality and prefab memories...Delightfully droll." Publishers Weekly "Rarely does a first sf novel have as much energy and creativity as Scott's madcap, mischievously irreverent depiction of a definitely post-postmodern future. Consider this the opening salvo of one of the genre's most promising and original new voices in years." Booklist "Diverting... [A] delightfully droll sense of humor." Publishers Weekly "[A] lunatic jaunt through a cartoon future." Kirkus Reviews From the Trade Paperback edition., "The most bizarre, profound and beautiful novel I've read in a long, long time."--Michael Marshall (Smith), author of Blood of Angels " Outrageous Fortune is captivating, absorbing, infuriating and disturbingly funny; it takes you hostage on the very first page and refuses to let you go until all its demands have been met."--Tom Holt, author of In Your Dreams "Diverting..a zany tale of a slippery future shaped by bogus reality and prefab memories...Delightfully droll."-- Publishers Weekly "Rarely does a first sf novel have as much energy and creativity as Scott's madcap, mischievously irreverent depiction of a definitely post-postmodern future. Consider this the opening salvo of one of the genre's most promising and original new voices in years."-- Booklist "Diverting... [A] delightfully droll sense of humor."-- Publishers Weekly "[A] lunatic jaunt through a cartoon future."-- Kirkus Reviews

Dewey Edition22

Dewey DecimalFIC

SynopsisIn 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.