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Автор: Макдональд Йен

Серия: Desolation Road Universe #1

Язык: английский

Год: 1988

Издатель: Pyr

ISBN: 9781591028451

Город: Amherst, NY

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It all began thirty years ago on Mars, with a greenperson. But by the time it all finished, the town of Desolation Road had experienced every conceivable abnormality from Adam Black’s Wonderful Travelling Chautauqua and Educational ’Stravaganza (complete with its very own captive angel) to the Astounding Tatterdemalion Air Bazaar. Its inhabitants ranged from Dr. Alimantando, the town’s founder and resident genius, to the Babooshka, a barren grandmother who just wants her own child-grown in a fruit jar; from Rajendra Das, mechanical hobo who has a mystical way with machines to the Gallacelli brothers, identical triplets who fell in love with—and married—the same woman.

“Ian McDonald’s Desolation Road is one of the books that has influenced me the most as a writer. Funny and sad and wildly imaginative… What a book!”
— Cory Doctorow

“This is the kind of novel I long to find yet seldom do. Desolation Road is a rara avis… Extraordinary and more than that!”
— Philip José Farmer

“Flavoured with a voice that blends the delightful prose of Jack Vance with the idiosyncratic stylings of Cordwainer Smith, this novel is, most of all, about the dusty town of Desolation Road in the middle of the red Martian desert. Episodic in scope, it would also work as short stories. An elderly couple get lost in the infinite space of their garden, a baby growing in a jar is stolen and replaced with a mango, a man called The Hand plays electric guitar for the clouds and starts the first rain for one hundred and fifty thousand years.”
— SFSite.com