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Auteur | Hughes, Rhys |
Titel | The Abnormalities of Stringent Strange [signed and limited edition] |
Uitgever | Meteor House |
Genre | Gesigneerd |
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Editie | 2013 - Special first edition limited to 88 signed copies (this in no.10) - paperback - 208 p. |
ISBN nummer | 9780983746133 |
Taal |  |
Conditie |       Als nieuw |
Beschrijving staat | (F) |
Gewicht | 337 gram |
Past door brievenbus (Ja/Nee) | Ja |
Prijs | € 25,00 |
Omschrijving | A tribute to the pulp SF writers of the 1920s, 30s and 40s, featuring the bold aviator Stringent Strange and a host of other characters in a series of adventures set in a future full of more astounding thrills than is possible to list in such a brief descriptive paragraph!
The world has never seen an aviator quite like Stringent Strange. Half man, half ape, half badly added fraction, he can fly anything with wings and many things without. Under the mentorship of the unorthodox genius Professor Tobias Crinkle, our hairy hero soon gets much more than he bargains for when he finds himself up against a fiendish Nazi plot to invade and conquer America before the war has even begun!
Fortunately there exists an invention that can help him fight back against the warlike scoundrels, but the consequences of using it will propel him into even greater peril, into an alternative future where the themes and tropes of early magazine science fiction are menacingly real and coexist in perfect disharmony! Into a bracing reality where the only weapons he can rely on are the three special abnormalities he was born with… |
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