jonn reviewed Dimension of Miracles by Robert Sheckley
Must-read for any Adams appreciators
5 stars
The ending is surprising, calm and amazing.
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Paperback, 208 pages
English language
Published May 13, 2020 by Penguin Books, Limited.
Announced in a thunderclap out of another day's tedium, Tom Carmody - a hapless New Yorker - learns that he is the winner of the Intergalactic Sweepstake. Accepting with a shrug, he is whipped across the universe to collect his prize. The catch? There's no way home. Enlisting the help of galactic bureaucrats, planetary engineers and a couple of gods, Carmody embarks on a desperate search for Earth, all the while being pursued by a perplexing predatory creature . . .
Often compared to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Dimension of Miracles is a masterwork of electric humour that offers an oblique examination of human nature amid the vastness of the cosmos.
The ending is surprising, calm and amazing.
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