The Broken World - Softcover
Writing an on-line walk-through to a computer game of some complexity can take up a lot of time. As our narrator grapples with his player's guide, real life starts to intrude in troublesome ways. The day job, the live-in girlfriend and his best friend are all causing him headaches; but nothing can distract him from the task at hand.
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"Phenomenal. Quite scary in its originality, ingenuity and significance. Bound to become a cult book, and in serious danger of being a world-wide best-seller." (Victoria Glendinning)
"Steers a dizzying path between science fiction and the existential thriller, with writing that is kinetic, street-smart and supremely fertile ... Quite unique. Contemporary fiction should watch out: it's about to be ambushed." (Rupert Thomson)
"The Broken World is, in short, a page-turner, combining originality with readability ... One of our most stimulating writers." (Mike Moorcock)
"Etchells beguiles the reader in a number of sophisticated ways ... a humane and heartfelt book, with a proper emotional core wrapped up in a giddying fantasia." (Scotland on Sunday)
"One of the first books that truly examines how computer games and fiction can be intertwined ... a genuinely new development in literary fiction" (Matt Thorne Literary Review)
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"Steers a dizzying path between science fiction and the existential thriller, with writing that is kinetic, street-smart and supremely fertile ... Quite unique. Contemporary fiction should watch out: it's about to be ambushed." (Rupert Thomson)
"The Broken World is, in short, a page-turner, combining originality with readability ... One of our most stimulating writers." (Mike Moorcock)
"Etchells beguiles the reader in a number of sophisticated ways ... a humane and heartfelt book, with a proper emotional core wrapped up in a giddying fantasia." (Scotland on Sunday)
"One of the first books that truly examines how computer games and fiction can be intertwined ... a genuinely new development in literary fiction" (Matt Thorne Literary Review)
An extremely original, off-beat novel about life and love and happiness, not just in the real world, but in the on-line one too.
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- PublisherWindmill Books
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 0099519453
- ISBN 13 9780099519454
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages432
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