Book description
What if teleportation was really possible? Englishman Richie Fisher
is about to find out ...
Richie and his wife Clara have won a weekend in New York in a
newspaper competition. While Clara is off blowing their spending
money, Richie wanders aimlessly, chewing on a veggie-burger, ending up
in a gift-shop where he finds himself standing in front of an instant
transporter machine. It looks nothing like the open-plan teleporter on
Captain Kirk's Starship Enterprise; in fact, it seems more like a
glorified microwave oven.
Richie places his burger inside, hits the return key on the
linked-up computer - and the burger disappears. But if he can teleport
a half-eaten veggie-burger, what else could you do with the machine?
For criminals, the possibilities are endless. Who could catch you if
you beamed drugs into nostrils a hundred miles away? And how much
would illegal immigrants pay to be teleported into the rich host
country of their choice?
Richie buys a teleporter and takes it back to England, where the
chaos begins ...
In 2004, Stephen Clarke, a British journalist, published A Year
in the Merde, an almost-true account of what may-or-may-not have
happened in to him in the ten previous years he'd lived in France. He
originally published the novel in a edition of 200 copies, with the
intention of selling them through his website or giving them to his
friends. However, following a reading in a Canadian bookshop in Paris
and a write-up in a French newspaper, the book became a word-of-mouth
bestseller and was published around the world.
Originally self-published in 2003, A Short History of the
Future is Clarke's first novel. He has since gone on to write
three more Merde novels and three non-fiction books, including The
Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller, 1000 Years of Annoying the
French. He lives in Paris where he divides his time between
writing and not writing.
For more information about Stephen Clarke and his books, visit his
website: www. stephenclarkewriter. com
