Chapter one: 'A Woman Named Thursday Next.'
If you weren't already aware you immediately know this is going to be an unusual book.
Millon de Floss!
ChronoGuard - Time Travel!
'The chronoclastic ether' - wonderfully evocative
Literary detectives - counterfeit Coleridge or fake Fielding (Henry or Helen?) . This is a novel for book lovers - maybe.
Pet dodo - reverse extinction. When is this novel set?
French revisionists - setting out the alt-history stall early.
Goliath Corporation - TNN news network. Evil? Murdoch?
6th May 1985!?
Gordon Duff Rolecks!
By the end of Chapter one you probably know if you're going to love or loathe this novel. It's 1985. History is malleable. The Crimean War has been ongoing for 130yrs. England is at war with Socialist republic of Wales. Character names are ridiculous.