The End of the World Is Flat - Softcover

Edge, Simon

 
9781785632402: The End of the World Is Flat
Softcover
ISBN 10: 178563240X ISBN 13: 9781785632402
Verlag: Lightning, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

‘Skewers the trans rights row with some nifty, often snort-inducingly funny satire’ THE TIMES

‘A bracingly sharp satire on the sleep of reason and the tyranny of twaddle’ FRANCIS WHEEN

Mel Winterbourne’s modest map-making charity, the Orange Peel Foundation, has achieved all its aims and she’s ready to shut it down. But glamorous tech billionaire Joey Talavera has other ideas. He hijacks the foundation for his own purpose: to convince the world that the earth is flat.

Using the dark arts of social media at his new master’s behest, Mel’s ruthless young successor, Shane Foxley, turns science on its head. He persuades gullible online zealots that old-style ‘globularism’ is hateful. Teachers and airline pilots face ruin if they reject the new ‘True Earth’ orthodoxy.

Can Mel and her fellow heretics – vilified as ‘True-Earth Rejecting Globularists’ (Tergs) – thwart Orange Peel before insanity takes over? Might the solution to the problem lie in the 15th century?

Using his trademark mix of history and satire to poke fun at modern foibles, Simon Edge is at his razor-sharp best in a caper that may be more relevant than you think.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Simon Edge was born in Chester and read philosophy at Cambridge University. He was editor of the pioneering London paper Capital Gay before becoming a gossip columnist on the Evening Standard and then a feature writer on the Daily Express, where he was also a theatre critic for many years. He has an MA in Creative Writing from City University, London, where he also taught literary criticism. He is the author of four novels: The Hopkins Conundrum, longlisted for the Waverton Good Read Award, The Hurtle of Hell, A Right Royal Face-Off, and Anyone for Edmund?. 

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Verlag
Lightning
Erscheinungsdatum
2021
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
178563240X
ISBN 13 
9781785632402
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
331
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