Divine Comedies: Contains Here Comes the Sun and Odds and Gods [Paperback]

Tom Holt (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1, 2004

Now published for the first time in an omnibus edition, this book contains two of Tom Holt’s most hilarious comic fantasies. In Here Comes the Sun, the sun rises late, dirty, and so badly in need of service, it’s a wonder it gets up at all. The moon’s going to be scrapped presently, and a new one commissioned—but they’ve been saying that for years. All is not well with the universe, and it’s because the mortals are running the show. It’s time for a Higher Power to take charge. In Odds and Gods, we find that it’s a god’s life at the Sunnyvoyde Residential Home for Retired Deities. Everlasting life can be a real drag when all you’ve got to look forward to is cauliflower cheese on Wednesdays. But things are about to change, because those almighty duffers Thor, Odin, and Frey have restored a thousand-year-old traction engine—and it actually works. Then there’s Osiris, preparing for a quest that will test his wheelchair to its very limits. Only one thing might save the world. Dentures.

Editorial Reviews

Review

“… Hitchhiker’s Guide aficionados will relish every line.” -- Publishers Weekly, for Falling Sideways

“The best similes since Douglas Adams.” -- SFX

From the Publisher

“Tom Holt was born in London in 1961. At Oxford he studied bar billiards, ancient Greek agriculture, and the care and feeding of small, temperamental Japanese motorcycle engines; interests which led him, perhaps inevitably, to qualify as a solicitor and emigrate to Somerset, where he specialized in death and taxes for seven years.” Now a full–time writer, he is the author of such comic fantasy classics as Valhalla, Nothing But Blue Skies, and Snow White and the Seven Samurai.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 614 pages
• Publisher: Orbit (June 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1841491454
• ISBN-13: 978-1841491455
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,503,363 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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