The Road To Mars A Post-Modem Novel

Idle, Eric

ISBN 10: 0330481800 / ISBN 13: 9780330481809

Published by Pan Books, London, 2000

About this Item

Some reading creases, sightly cocked spine, some shelf wear, ink numerals to inside front cover, light foxing to edges of reading block. ; Nice tight copy, no names inside. Cover artwork by Paul Hess. ; 320 pages; Comic duo Muscroft and Ashby are working the Road to Mars, the vaudeville circuit of the solar system. With them is their tinman, a Bowie android, and like all Bowie's Carlton isn't your ordinary robot he's busy working on a thesis on the evolutionary purpose of comedy, and whether or not it can be cured. Mass Market PB.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Road To Mars A Post-Modem Novel
• Publisher: Pan Books, London
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0330481800
• ISBN 13: 9780330481809
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: Reprint; First Printing.
• Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

Carlton is an android working for Alex and Lewis, two comedians from the twenty-second century who travel the outer vaudeville circuit of the solar system known ironically as the Road to Mars. Being a computer he can't understand irony, but is nevertheless attempting to write a thesis about comedy, its place in evolution, and whether it can ever be cured. He is studying the comedians of the late twentieth century (including obscure and esoteric comedy acts such as Monty Python's Flying Circus) in his search for the comedy gene.

Meanwhile, during an audition for a gig on the Princess Di (a solar cruise ship), his two employers inadvertently become involved in a terriorist plot against Mars, the planet of showbiz.

Can Carlton prevent Alex and Lewis from losing their gigs, overcome the love thing and finally understand the meaning of comedy in the universe?

From one of the original members of Monty Python's Flying Circus.

About the Author

Eric Idle is an English comedian, actor, author and composer of comedic songs. He wrote and performed as a member of the internationally renowned British comedy group Monty Python. He is the author of a fiction novel titled Road To Mars.