The explorer who can turn his head into a trumpet if he tries really hard has crashed his balloon again, an accident that leads to him becoming the guest of a very strange household. He is introduced to the members of the tribe, including a living suit of armour, levitating skull, sentient reflection, and the woman or women in a state of quantum superposition he is fated to fall in love with. In a world ruled by the flux of wordplay and ideas-association rather than ordinary cause and effect, he must adapt quickly to the demands of lateral logic or perish. He must learn to blow impossible fanfares with his own face to secure his future.
“If you are prepared to discard the rational part of your day-to-day mind and plunge into an adult world as wonderful as Alice’s then lay back and let this book, like a relaxing helping of Monty Python and the Meaning of Life, Gilliam’s Brazil or Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, give you all the pleasure I’d guess Rhys Hughes received when writing it.” – MICHAEL MOORCOCK
