East of Ealing

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

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]

Reviews

• Review by Lynne Bispham (1993) in Vector 172 ^[2]
• Review by Chris Gilmore (1993) in Interzone, #72 June 1993
• Review [German] by Gerd Frey (1999) in Alien Contact, Nummer 35

References

1. Langford, Dave (June 1984). "Critical Mass". White Dwarf . No. 54. Games Workshop. p. 24.
2. "Title: East of Ealing".