The Witches of Chiswick
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| Author | Robert Rankin |
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| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Fantasy novel |
| Publisher | Gollancz |
| Released | 2003 |
| Media Type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 336 pp (hardcover edition) |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-575-07314-4 (hardcover edition) |
| Followed by | Knees Up Mother Earth |
The Witches Of Chiswick is a novel by the British author Robert Rankin, the title parodying that of The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike.
[edit] Plot introduction
We have all been lied to. A great and sinister conspiracy exists to keep us from uncovering the truth about our past. Have you ever wondered how Jules Verne and H.G. Wells dreamed up all that fantastic futuristic fiction? Did it ever occur to you that it might just have been based upon fact? That The War Of The Worlds was a true account of real events? That Captain Nemo's Nautilus even now lies rusting at the bottom of the North Sea? That there really was an invisible man? Now you can learn how a cabal of Victorian Witches from the Chiswick Townswomen's Guild, working with advanced Babbage super-computers, rewrote 19th Century history, and how a 23rd Century boy called William Starling uncovered the truth about everything.
[edit] Literary significance & criticism
'Rankin's whimsically dense sing-song patter reads like Douglas Adams crossed with Aaron Sorking by way of Mother Goose.' - Entertainment Weekly
'Rankin's prose is like a mind-expanding drug... beware, lest you find yourself addicted.' - SFX
