When I was born we moved to Hong Kong in time for the worst cholera epidemic, drought and typhoon of the century. My Mother was a factory-worker, home-maker, socialite and lady. The contents: * The Model-T Virgin * Begging your pardon, my lord, but Cook’s been eaten again * Robots knitting with rubber needles * Je pense it’s all going very bien * Footloose, en pas de basque * iG-Zero-D * In which Mr Cadwallader shampoos his parrot in the rain using some very dated popular science * Diary of a National Service chap * Blood-curdling screams and the Whitworth screw-thread * The Day the Earth took tea.My Father was a Grimsby deep-sea fisherman turned Cold War spy, an electronic-warfare expert turned naval historian. The title NGLND XPX is a text message nod to Admiral Nelson’s splendidly rousing signal, sent just as a bit of a rumble that we now call The Battle of Trafalgar was about to begin in 1805 – ‘England expects that every man will do his duty.’ Admiral Nelson appears nowhere in this book. It is the most fun that you can have with a librarian in the room without getting your ticket suspended. As literary feasts go this book is a paper bag of humbugs. Reality leaves the room on page one and farce enters just one chapter later.
The characters are as deep as summer puddles and the plots are as complicated as two planks of wood. This is a book to be read with tongue in cheek, preferably your own tongue and one of your own face cheeks unless you are very limber. The science in the fiction is quite splendidly silly.
Watch in awe and not some little discomfort as Queen Elizabeth does the dishes for Europe and the Ministry of Defence quietly saves the world from a rogue comet. Man up, madam, and do your OAP National Service during the pensioner wars with an insect species. Recognise your neighbours – polite English zombies coping with the dystopian hell of a socialist victory in the General Election. Squirm in a grandstand seat during an Industrial Revolution completely re-written just to see the new-fangled steam trains running over well-intentioned children (no real harm done). Rub shoulders with robots carrying teddy bears issuing tablets of Commandments to chaps wandering out of the desert.
NGLND XPX was written to grab you by the ankle and drag you screaming into a world of funny and not so funny scifi-ish fiction, a soupcon of some dashed fine adventure and a spot of Ealing-esque farce. You can read this before NGLND XPX PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. Here is a quick description and cover image of book NGLND XPX written by Ian Hutson which was published in. Brief Summary of Book: NGLND XPX by Ian Hutson
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