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Rhys Hughes
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born
September 24, 1966
in The United Kingdom
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A New Universal History of Infamy a New Universal History of Infamy by Rhys Hughes (Goodreads Author), John Coulthart   4.07 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Nowhere Near Milkwood 4.41 avg rating — 17 ratings
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2002
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The Postmodern Mariner 4.33 avg rating — 12 ratings
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2008
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The Astral Disruptor (Sampietro Mischief #1) 4.29 avg rating — 17 ratings
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2010
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The Phantom Festival 4.24 avg rating — 17 ratings
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2011
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Polluto 3 by Rhys Hughes (Goodreads Author), Steve Redwood, Deb Hoag  4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings
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The Smell of Telescopes by Rhys Hughes (Goodreads Author), David Rix 4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings
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The Percolated Stars 4.12 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Lo sfarzoso spettacolo del disordine 4.54 avg rating — 13 ratings
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The Crystal Cosmos 4.71 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Mirror in the Looking Glass (Literature & Fiction)
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A short story of the same type as the stories in my book *The Less Lonely Planet* and featuring a character named Frabjal Troose, one of my 'mad inventors'.
Enviando libertad a tierras lejanas (Literature & Fiction)
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Cuando el Presidente Arbusto llegó al poder, los almacenes llenos de material bélico fueron abiertos...
Wood for the Trees (Literature & Fiction)
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updated May 19, 2009 02:51am
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A short fable set in a little village in India...
The Unsubtle Cages (Literature & Fiction)
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updated Apr 06, 2009 02:49am
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A brief strange story about cages.
Fanny is Famished (Literature & Fiction)
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A fairy tale -- with a difference!
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| A classic Vonnegut novel from 1965. It’s a sustained, funny and poignant attack on the ‘American Dream’ of free-enterprise and self-sufficiency. The Sunday Times review sums up this novel very neatly by declaring it to be “filled with irony and black...more | |
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| An early Marquez novella and a stunning piece of work. A good entry point to the Marquez oeuvre: the 'magic realist' effects are mostly downplayed, the prose is intense but not too rich, the characters are real without being too solid. Like all the b...more | |
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| Duras is probably my fabourite female writer, though in an ideal world it shouldn't be necessary for me to make any distinction between 'male' and 'female' writers, and I'm not helping to make that ideal world become a reality by pointing any of this...more | |
"> Have you read William Boyd? Here, in my opinion, is a real writer, worthy of any prize available (and he has won several).
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