The Fandom Of The Operator - Hardcover

Rankin, Robert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385602561 ISBN 13: 9780385602563

Publisher: Doubleday, 2001

Synopsis

Gary Cheese is 19 and works for British Telecom as an operator. His hobbies include watching TV, walking his dog, going down to the pub and attempting to re-animate the dead.

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About the Author

Robert Rankin is the author of Web Site Story, Waiting for Godalming, Sex and Drugs and Sausage Rolls, Snuff Fiction, Apocalypso, The Dance of the Voodoo Handbag, Sprout Mask Replica, Nostradamus Ate My Hamster, A Dog Called Demolition, The Garden of Unearthly Delights, The Most Amazing Man Who Ever Lived, The Greatest Show Off Earth, Raiders of the Lost Car Park, The Book of Ultimate Truths, the Armageddon quartet (three books), and the Brentford trilogy (five books) which are all published by Corgi Books. Robert Rankin's latest novel, The Fandom of the Operator, is now available as a Doubleday hardback. For more information on Robert Rankin and his books, see his website at www.lostcarpark.com/sproutlore

From the Back Cover

Gary Cheese works for British Telecom as an operator. Gary's hobbies include watching TV, going down the pub with his mates and attempting to reanimate the dead. He hasn't been having too much success with the latter so far.

But Gary's heard a rumour. According to this bloke he met down the pub, there exists certain telecommunications technology that can actually let you speak to the dead. Apparently it's been in operation for years. FLATLINE it's called, a chatline to the dead. They ran all these ads on the TV a few years ago to prepare the public for it. Those ones about having a one-to-one with famous dead people. But it seems that something went very wrong: the dead had certain things to say to the living that the powers that be couldn't allow to be heard. Or something. Apparently.

Gary's determined to find out the truth. Gary's a bit of a fan boy and Gary really wants to speak to all of his dead heroes. And Gary will have the time of his life when he talks to the dead.

With the tragic early death of Robert Rankin during the millennial celebrations, it seemed that the world had lost forever its leading exponent of Far-Fetched Fiction. But happily it was not the case. Within days of Rankin's demise, Brentford medium Madame Lorretta Rune received an urgent spirit communication from him. 'Purchase twenty-three exercise books and two hundred biros and prepare to take dictation of my final novel,' she was told. The result was this Techno-gothic masterpiece, the first ever posthumously written novel. It proves beyond a doubt that for Rankin, as for Elvis before him, death was a good career move. Robert Rankin was the author of The Brentford Trilogy (five books), The Dance of the Voodoo Handbag, Snuff Fiction, Waiting for Godalming and many other wondrous books.

Edition details

• Publisher: Doubleday
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0385602561
• ISBN 13: 9780385602563
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288