Tom Holt is the author of such comic fantasy classics as WHO'S AFRAID OF BEOWULF?, EXPECTING SOMEONE TALLER, OVERTIME, WISH YOU WERE HERE and SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN SAMURAI.
Few would deny that Tom Holt is breathing down the neck of Terry Pratchett when it comes to bestselling comic fantasy. Holt may not possess the manic, surrealistic edge that distinguishes Pratchett's Discworld books, but he offers his own very individual brand of madly logical humour, and such books as Snow White and the Seven Samurai show a comic writer at full stretch. In Falling Sideways, Holt takes on the origins of civilisation. While man's ultimate ascendancy has stretched from the first homo sapiens descending from the trees to nations destroying each other, there is little doubt that humanity is the progenitor of every great civilisation. Wrong. Holt's hero believes he has discovered the real (and hideous) truth: that every great civilisation in history has, rather embarrassingly, been founded, run and then cunningly manipulated by a small gang of devious frogs. Each logical absurdity is piled upon the last with satisfying regularity.
Few would deny that Tom Holt is breathing down the neck of Terry Pratchett when it comes to bestselling comic fantasy. Holt may not possess the manic, surrealistic edge that distinguishes Pratchett's Discworld books, but he offers his own very individual brand of madly logical humour, and such books as Snow White and the Seven Samurai show a comic writer at full stretch. In Falling Sideways, Holt takes on the origins of civilisation. While man's ultimate ascendancy has stretched from the first homo sapiens descending from the trees to nations destroying each other, there is little doubt that humanity is the progenitor of every great civilisation. Wrong. Holt's hero believes he has discovered the real (and hideous) truth: that every great civilisation in history has, rather embarrassingly, been founded, run and then cunningly manipulated by a small gang of devious frogs. Each logical absurdity is piled upon the last with satisfying regularity.
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