Less Lonely Planet
Edition: First
Publisher: Humdrumming
Published: April 25, 2008
Place of publication: London, England, UK
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781905532520
Subjects: Fiction anthologies & collections; Short stories; Fiction, short stories
Genres: Fantasy; Humour
Description: A collection of inexplicably joined short stories and tales from Rhys Hughes, the author who is to convention what apricots are to armadillos. 32 tales about life, non-melodic sounds, cats, adventures, love, bread, circuses, pyramids, ducks, and more!
 Since time immemorial, the planet Earth has revolved around the sun on its own, carrying one species of technically advanced hominids, a handful of basic urges, a dozen or so original plots. But a very slow collision with the rogue world Happenstance is about to change all that.
 The two celestial bodies will fuse together into a single object, doubling the surface area, trebling the population, quadrupling the number of resonant archetypes, multiplying by a millionfold the virtues of hyperbole!
A less lonely Earth means more high adventure, more low morals, more medium rares. Oh yes!
Table of contents: title: Foreword; title: Thinner Air; title: Troubleroot; title: Goblin Sunrise; title: The Two Kingdoms; title: The Taming of the Old Woman Who Lived in a Shrew; title: Thief Among Thieves; title: Below the Carnival; title: The Muse Ouroboros; title: Accordion Beach; title: The Mice Will Play; title: The Desiccated Sage; title: Two Fat Men in a Very Thin Country; title: Niddala; title: Sending Freedom Far Away; title: The Impregnable Fortress; title: The Bathing Bells; title: Doom Laden Haven; title: The Six Sentinels; title: In Moonville; title: But it Pours; title: The City That Was Itself; title: The Man Who Gargled with Gargoyle Juice; title: The Tallest Midget in Christendom; title: The Kissable Climes; title: The Non-Existent Viscount in the Trees; title: When the Microscopic Giants Took Over Happenstance; title: Venus and Stupid; title: Von Ryan’s Daughter’s Express; title: In Sunsetville; title: Fable with Turkish Coffee; title: Sir Cheapskate; title: Playing Impossible Instruments; title: Afterword: Interview with the King of Shush (who knows everything)