Notes from Small Planets: Your Pocket Travel Guide to the Worlds of Science Fiction and Fantasy
By (Author) Nate Crowley
HarperCollins Publishers
HarperVoyager
14th February 2025
12th September 2024
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Parodies and spoofs: non-fiction
823.92
Paperback
256
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 20mm
180g
Journey from fantasy mountains to super-cities, through piratical seas and across space without missing any must-see sights or putting a foot wrong with the locals! Whether youre Lord of the shoestring-budget or Luxe Skywalker Notes from Small Planets is your pastiche passport through the best worlds of Science Fiction & Fantasy
Your ultimate travel guide to all the must-see locations in the worlds of Science Fiction and Fantasy.
The perfect gift for self-professed geeks and fans of all things genre from classic genre readers to new young disciples of nerdery. From misty mountains to wizarding schools, from the homes of superheroes to lairs of infamous villains visit your favourite worlds and discover new ones all without ever missing a single landmark or traditional dish. Whats orc for bon voyage
Nate is the wielder of a unique and delightful imagination
Adrian Tchaikovsky
This is a kind of Lonely Planet guide to the various sub-genres of SF and Fantasy, written as though the work of a crass, blundering hack journalist. It's splendidly satirical and hilariously funny, provided you don't mind literary sacred cows being slaughtered with gleeful, merciless abandon.
Financial Times
A love letter to the worldbuilding of fantasy fiction
Grimdark Magazine
Praise for Nate Crowley
'Weird and hilarious' Buzzfeed
'Surreal and occasionally horrifying' Daily Dot
Nate Crowley knows too much about the history of public aquaria. Once, he accidentally punched a wrasse while wearing a diving suit from the 1800s. He keeps a List of Animals. He can be found on twitter as @frogcroakley.