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New Novel Presents Readers with an Unsettling Image of how our Culture may have Developed |
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March 06, 2008 |
London, March 6 2008 -- The Nursery, the debut novel by Warren Hargodd, presents readers with an unsettling mirror image of how our culture might have developed.
In a tale that fuses elements of the fantasy, horror, science fiction and mystery thriller genres, readers are drawn into the nation of Copunica, a hypothetical (or simply overlooked?) island state which has developed in isolation for centuries and now finds itself in an apocalyptic collision with the West. How might any civilization build its own identity when it is placed in such extreme geographical isolation? What might it gain and lose when an increasingly globalised world attempts to swallow it up? How might a people’s devout belief in their own theology cope with the intrusion of a leery outside world? And, just suppose, the god they worship is not quite what it seems..?
The idea for The Nursery first came about while the author was himself living abroad and the whole, complex plot gradually wove together from a number of ideas for short stories. Setting much of the action in a fictitious country was a great imaginative and technical challenge, but one which ultimately paid off and Copunica seems altogether eerily believable. Inspirations for this work include Neil Gaiman, Iain Banks and Philip K Dick with perhaps a hint of Lovecraft, and it will surely appeal to anybody who has enjoyed the works of these authors.
The Nursery is available to purchase both in paperback format (525 pages, retailing at £15.95 / US $31.70) or as a PDF to download (£3.95 / US $7.84). The book is already available to purchase direct from the publisher (Lulu.com) and will also be available from online book stores within the coming weeks. Find out more and read an extract on the publisher’s website: http://www.lulu.com/content/1394674 or go to the book’s own Myspace profile at: http://www.myspace.com/h7k
The book’s ISBN is 978-1-8479970-9-8
Media contact: Howard Gardner
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Lulu.com is the premier marketplace for digital content on the Internet, with over 300,000 recently published titles, and more than 4,000 new titles added each week, created by people in 80 different countries. Lulu is changing the world of publishing by enabling the creators of books, video, periodicals, multimedia and other content to publish their work themselves with complete editorial and copyright control. With Lulu offices in the US, Canada the UK and Europe, Lulu customers can reach the globe.
Warren Hargodd is twenty-nine years old and lives and works in London. Besides writing works of short fiction – and this, his first full-length novel -, he is an artist, a freelance illustrator for books and magazines and creator of Flash animations for the internet.
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Press Release Summary
In a tale that fuses elements of the fantasy, horror, science fiction and mystery thriller genres, readers are drawn into the nation of Copunica, a hypothetical (or simply overlooked?) island state which has developed in isolation for centuries and now finds itself in an apocalyptic collision with the West. How might any civilization build its own identity when it is placed in such extreme geographical isolation? What might it gain and lose when an increasingly globalised world attempts to swallow it up?
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