POLYSTOM

by Adam Roberts

$35 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition

London: Gollancz, 2003 . Octavo, boards. First edition. Set in an alternate cosmos, a solar system whose planets, which are only thousands of miles apart, share one atmosphere, as vacuum is impossible in this universe; the tale initially combines steampunk and mild satire through its protagonist, who is clearly modeled on P. G. Wodehouse's Bertie Wooster; but deaths and war soon terminate the idyll. Daft young Polystom's

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