A Scientific Romance

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'Pure pkasure a deeply seductive and brilliantly sustained piece of aoventure writing, enthrallingly descriptive, fragile, scary' Julié Myerson, Observer
It is. 1999, and Dávid Lambert, jilted lover and reluctant museum curator, discoverS that H.G. Wells's time machine really existed -exisrs, in fact, because now it has returned to London. Motivated by unanswered questions and inescapable curiosity, he propels himself deep into the next millennium. Exploring the utterly changed, luxuriant and menacing new landscape of the future, he alsó explores the ruins of his life, in particular the web of erotic obsession and remorse which ensnared him and his old friend Bird, and Anita, the beautiful, eccentric Egyptologist they both loved and lost.
A Scientific Románcé is a rich, imaginative növel of contemporary culture and conscience refracted through the lens of the distant future — and a darkly comic work of outstanding narrative power.
'The most apocalyptic dystopia since Russell... Tovább

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'Pure pkasure a deeply seductive and brilliantly sustained piece of aoventure writing, enthrallingly descriptive, fragile, scary' Julié Myerson, Observer
It is. 1999, and Dávid Lambert, jilted lover and reluctant museum curator, discoverS that H.G. Wells's time machine really existed -exisrs, in fact, because now it has returned to London. Motivated by unanswered questions and inescapable curiosity, he propels himself deep into the next millennium. Exploring the utterly changed, luxuriant and menacing new landscape of the future, he alsó explores the ruins of his life, in particular the web of erotic obsession and remorse which ensnared him and his old friend Bird, and Anita, the beautiful, eccentric Egyptologist they both loved and lost.
A Scientific Románcé is a rich, imaginative növel of contemporary culture and conscience refracted through the lens of the distant future — and a darkly comic work of outstanding narrative power.
'The most apocalyptic dystopia since Russell Hoban's Riddley Walker in 100 years time this book should be a classic'
Guardian
'This növel works on all levels its flair for description can be positively Dickensian. The result is a fresh take on an old formula - the dystopian postapocalypse növel - and a profound meditation on the nature of time' John Vernon, New York Times Book Review
'Intelligent, moving and above all wonderfully entertaining brings Ronald Wright into the fellowship of Orwell and H.G. Wells' Alberto Manguel Vissza