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The End of the World Is Flat
Taschenbuch von Simon Edge
Sprache: Englisch

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'Skewers the trans rights row with some nifty, often snort-inducingly funny satire' THE TIMES

'A bracingly sharp satire on the sleep of reason and the tyranny of twaddle' FRANCIS WHEEN

Mel Winterbourne's modest map-making charity, the Orange Peel Foundation, has achieved all its aims and she's ready to shut it down. But glamorous tech billionaire Joey Talavera has other ideas. He hijacks the foundation for his own purpose: to convince the world that the earth is flat.

Using the dark arts of social media at his new master's behest, Mel's ruthless young successor, Shane Foxley, turns science on its head. He persuades gullible online zealots that old-style 'globularism' is hateful. Teachers and airline pilots face ruin if they reject the new 'True Earth' orthodoxy.

Can Mel and her fellow heretics - vilified as 'True-Earth Rejecting Globularists' (Tergs) - thwart Orange Peel before insanity takes over? Might the solution to the problem lie in the 15th century?

Using his trademark mix of history and satire to poke fun at modern foibles, Simon Edge is at his razor-sharp best in a caper that may be more relevant than you think.

'Skewers the trans rights row with some nifty, often snort-inducingly funny satire' THE TIMES

'A bracingly sharp satire on the sleep of reason and the tyranny of twaddle' FRANCIS WHEEN

Mel Winterbourne's modest map-making charity, the Orange Peel Foundation, has achieved all its aims and she's ready to shut it down. But glamorous tech billionaire Joey Talavera has other ideas. He hijacks the foundation for his own purpose: to convince the world that the earth is flat.

Using the dark arts of social media at his new master's behest, Mel's ruthless young successor, Shane Foxley, turns science on its head. He persuades gullible online zealots that old-style 'globularism' is hateful. Teachers and airline pilots face ruin if they reject the new 'True Earth' orthodoxy.

Can Mel and her fellow heretics - vilified as 'True-Earth Rejecting Globularists' (Tergs) - thwart Orange Peel before insanity takes over? Might the solution to the problem lie in the 15th century?

Using his trademark mix of history and satire to poke fun at modern foibles, Simon Edge is at his razor-sharp best in a caper that may be more relevant than you think.

Über den Autor
Simon Edge was born in Chester and read philosophy at Cambridge University. He was editor of the pioneering London paper Capital Gay before becoming a gossip columnist on the Evening Standard and then a feature writer on the Daily Express, where he was also a theatre critic for many years. He has an MA in Creative Writing from City University, London, where he also taught literary criticism. He is the author of four novels: The Hopkins Conundrum, longlisted for the Waverton Good Read Award, The Hurtle of Hell, A Right Royal Face-Off, and Anyone for Edmund?.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Genre: Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 304
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781785632402
ISBN-10: 178563240X
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Edge, Simon
Hersteller: Eye Books
Maße: 196 x 127 x 24 mm
Von/Mit: Simon Edge
Erscheinungsdatum: 16.08.2021
Gewicht: 0,274 kg
preigu-id: 119084008
Über den Autor
Simon Edge was born in Chester and read philosophy at Cambridge University. He was editor of the pioneering London paper Capital Gay before becoming a gossip columnist on the Evening Standard and then a feature writer on the Daily Express, where he was also a theatre critic for many years. He has an MA in Creative Writing from City University, London, where he also taught literary criticism. He is the author of four novels: The Hopkins Conundrum, longlisted for the Waverton Good Read Award, The Hurtle of Hell, A Right Royal Face-Off, and Anyone for Edmund?.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Genre: Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 304
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781785632402
ISBN-10: 178563240X
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Edge, Simon
Hersteller: Eye Books
Maße: 196 x 127 x 24 mm
Von/Mit: Simon Edge
Erscheinungsdatum: 16.08.2021
Gewicht: 0,274 kg
preigu-id: 119084008
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