East of Ealing

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East of Ealing is a novel by Robert Rankin published in 1984. It is the third novel in Rankin's Brentford Trilogy.

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Plot summary

East of Ealing is a novel in which Pooley and Omally contend with perpetual motion, robots, time travel, Merlin, Sherlock Holmes and an Antichrist fond of microchips. [1]

Reception

Dave Langford reviewed East of Ealing for White Dwarf #54, and stated that "its best feature is the very funny dialogue of heroes Pooley and Omally and I laughed like a drain at (eg) their appalled discovery that Eden was in Brentford, Babylon in Chiswick, and the Virgin Mary's birthplace in Penge." [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 Langford, Dave (June 1984). "Critical Mass". White Dwarf . No. 54. Games Workshop. p. 24.
  2. https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?9386