Dimension of Miracles
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First published in 1968 by Dell Books.
Announced in a thunderclap out of another day's tedium, hapless New Yorker Tom Carmody learns that he is the winner of the Intergalactic Sweepstake. Accepting with a shrug, he is whipped across the universe to collect his prize. The catch? There's no way home. Enlisting the help of galactic bureaucrats, planetary engineers and a couple of gods, Carmody embarks on a desperate search for Earth, all the while being pursued by a perplexing predatory creature. Often cited as an influence on Douglas Adams, Dimension of Miracles is a masterwork of electric humour that offers an oblique examination of human nature amid the vastness of the cosmos.
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Penguin classics science fiction.
PUBLISHED
London : Penguin Books, 2020.
Year Published: 2020
Description: 199 pages ; 18 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780241472491
0241472490
SUBJECTS
Awards -- Fiction.
Interplanetary voyages -- Fiction.
Science fiction.
Satirical literature.