The Witches of Chiswick
By (Author) Robert Rankin
Orion Publishing Co
Gollancz
1st December 2010
26th August 2010
United Kingdom
Paperback
416
Width 162mm, Height 199mm, Spine 27mm
282g
Have you ever wondered how Victorians dreamed up all that fantastic futuristic fiction Did it ever occur to you that it might just have been based upon fact That THE WAR OF THE WORLDS was a true account of real events That Captain Nemo's Nautilus even now lies rusting at the bottom of the North Sea That there really was an invisible man
And what about the other stuff Did you know that Queen Victoria had a sexual relationship with Dr Watson Or that the elephant man was a product of an ET/human hybridisation programme Or that Jack the Ripper was a terminator robot sent from the futureRead on and learn how a cabal of Victorian Witches from the Chiswick Townswomen's Guild, working with advanced Babbage super-computers, rewrote 19th Century history and how a 23rd Century boy called Will Starling uncovered the truth about everything.One of the rare guys who can always make me laugh. - Terry Pratchett
Robert Rankin is an unrepentant Luddite who writes his bestselling novels by hand in exercise books. He is the author of THE HOLLOW CHOCLATE BUNNIES OF THE APOCALYPSE, THE WITCHES OF CHISWICK, The Brentford Trilogy (5 books), The Armageddon Quartet (3 books) and many more.