Smallworld: A Science Fiction Adventure Comedy

Author: Dominic Green
Category: Childrens
Published: 2010
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Read Online"A showcase for Green's bone-dry satire. A delight." - The Telegraph "A talented writer having lots of very smart fun"Mount Ararat, a world the size of an asteroid yet with Earth-standard gravity, plays host to an oddball community whose children are protected by the Devil, a mechanical killing machine.But who placed the robot there, and who - or what - is really in need of protection?"A showcase for Green's bone-dry satire and deadpan humour ... Green's agile imagination constantly wrong-foots the reader. A delight."-Peter Ingham, The Telegraph"The work of a talented writer having lots of very smart fun"-- S F Winser, Booksquawk.comSmallworld is like nothing you've read before... innovative speculative fiction from Hugo-listed Brit SF writer Dominic Green.Mount Ararat, a world the size of an asteroid yet with Earth-standard gravity, plays host to an oddball farming community whose children are protected by the Devil, a mechanical killing machine.But who placed the robot there, and who - or what - is really in need of protection?