Outrageous Fortune: A Novel

ISBN: 0553589857

Author: Scott, Tim

Condition: New

In this outrageously funny, outrageously inventive debut, one of the most outrageously talented new writers to break onto the sci-fi scene in decades asks the most loaded question of all . . .Dont you hate it when this happens?. . . thats what the business card asks Jonny X67, dream architect to the rich and jaded. Its all the thieves who stole his house left behind. And if that werent bad enough, a saleswoman named Caroline E61 drops from the sky to sell him a set of encyclopedias and wont take no for an answer. Can his luck get any worse?In this rip-roaring roller-coaster ride through a brilliantly imagined future of paranoid absurdity, Jonny X will learn the answer soon enough when he falls afoul of a lunatic motorcycle gang nicknamed the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, a relentless Belgian assassin, and his own irate girlfriend. Traversing a cityscape whose neighborhoods are organized by musical genres, running into joke-telling elevators and holographic computer viruses, Jonny is about to learn what a nightmare its going to be to get his old life back in a reality warping faster than the speed of the imagination. Outrageous Fortune heralds a marvelous new talent sure to be delightfully altering the minds of readers for years to come.