Nostradamus Ate My Hamster by Robert Rankin

Culturally Religious: John’s relationship with the Catholic faith is complex.

Crossover: Knees Up Mother Earth is also the second book in the Witches of Chiswick trilogy.

Among other things, he can see through his eyelids.

Crazy-Prepared: It takes a lot to catch Professor Slocombe off guard.

Clone Jesus: In Brentford Chainstore Massacre.

Canine Companion: Young Chips to Old Pete.

Bizarre and Improbable Golf Game: Allotment Golf, and leading up to it, the antics which saw our heroes barred from every club in the county.

Aliens in Cardiff: Aliens in Brentford, among other things.

And there is the suit of BOLESKINE tweed note after Boleskine (boll-ESS-kin) House in Scotland - home of Crowley and Led Zeppelin guitarist and producer Jimmy Page. 'Do wotcha like is the whole of the law.' 'I am perplexed'.

Aleister Crowley: The Brightonomicon keeps scattering throwaway references.

The Brentford Trilogy contains examples of:

The Brentford Chainstore Massacre (1997).

The Brentford Trilogy - Nine volumes (three more than the galaxy's second-largest trilogy), detailing the adventures of two layabouts named Jim Pooley and John O'Mally in an area of West London which comes under attack from supernatural forces more than you'd expect.

Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse (2002).Works by Robert Rankin with their own page include: It starred David Warner as Hugo Rune (the Cosmic Dick) and Rupert Degas as Rizla. One of the books, The Brightonomicon, received a full cast audio dramatisation in 2008, starring some comedic celebrities such as Andy Serkis and Mark Wing-Davey. If it wasn't for all the Negative Continuity it might even count as Canon Welding. His writing style consists almost entirely of Sophisticated as Hell.Īlthough his books can be divided fairly firmly into series, most of them have Crossover characters, and Running Gags that follow from one series to another, either because of a tradition, or an old charter or something, or else because of the transperambulation of pseudocosmic antimatter. He's particularly fond of No Fourth Wall moments and Shooting The Shaggy Dog.

Mostly they have a plot of sorts, but beyond that anything can happen. Rankin's works are best described as completely insane.

Nostradamus Ate My Hamster by Robert Rankin