The Brightonomicon

Hardcover | 1 July 2005 | Edition Number 1

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When our teenage hero takes his beloved one, Enid Earles, away for a dirty weekend in Brighton, things do not go as he might have wished. Instead of a night of passion - his first - our young hero is thrown from the pier by the leader of The Canvey Island Mod Squad. He narrowly escapes death by drowning when he is brought ashore by the Perfect Master, Cosmic Dick and self-styled Logos of the Aeon (not to mention the reinventer of the ocarina), Hugo Rune Himself.
But our hero has lost his memory and, in desperation, agrees to join The Lad Himself in the solving of twelve cases, or conundrums, based upon The Brightonomicon, the new zodiac signs formed by the alignment of Brighton streets and discovered by Rune: carrriageway constellations. Together they must find the Chronovision, invented in the 1950s by a Benedictine monk, which affords the viewer scenes of past events ... and, should it fall into the wrong hands, afford ultimate power to the would-be World Dictator.
And this being an adventure most exciting, they must find it before the sinister Count Otto Black, would-be World Dictator and all-round bad guy. Or the whole world will all go to pot. Which it will to a certain extent anyway: these are the 1960s, after all.

Industry Reviews

"If you liked the lunacy of The Goon Show, outrageous running gags, names that rhyme, terrible poetry, and an often inspired and playful use of language, this will be right up your street." -- Barbara Davies STARBURST "Rankin's Milligan-esque mind shows no signs of fatigue or flagging. Rocking good fun." -- Daniel Coysh THE MORNING STAR "All Rankin's old charms remain fresh and punchy in this wonderful novel. Like all great comedians, Rankin is an excellent wordsmith and he combines magic, humour and pirates perfectly to leave you chuckling all the way through." OUTLAND "From the bizarre to the plain daft, this is a book you won't be able to read in public for fear of laughing out loud. Absolutely hilarious." THE LINCOLNSHIRE ECHO "Robert Rankin proves his talent for the fantastically bizarre once again in this highly original adventure...Plenty of laughs and twists. It's difficult not to enjoy this ridiculous yarn." DREAMWATCH "Yet another slice of far-fetched fiction in the Rankin tradition. It'd laugh-out-loud funny." -- Guy Haley SFX

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