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Om The Purple Cloud

Fantastic, weird, macabre...imaginative, fascinating, convincing, as some dreadful nightmare...a remarkable piece of work...head and shoulders above the average tale of fantastic adventure New York Times Book Review Delivered with a skill and artistry falling little short of actual majesty -- H P Lovecraft The first great science fiction novel of the science fiction century -- John Clute One of the best last-man books, The Purple Cloud still surprises with its passionate despair and prescient scenes of mass extinction, motorcars, electrified billboards and telephone sex by undersea cable Times Literary Supplement