Web Site Story

✍ Scribed by Robert Rankin

• Publisher: Random House;Corgi
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 172 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0552147435

✦ Synopsis

THE MILLENNIUM BUG WAS REAL. IT JUST WASN’T THAT KIND OF A BUG.
It is something far worse, a computer virus that made the deadly species crossover from machine to man. And it is amongst us NOW! Spreading unseen and unsuspected. Any of us could be infected. You might just have caught it this very minute!!! Scary, eh?
And that’s not all.
Folk are disappearing: can it be as some suspect, the Rapture that heralds the End of Days, or is it something else altogether? Something never before experienced?
It all began when Big Bob Charker’s Tour of Brentford bus came to a terrible end in the High Street and the bodies of the victims began to dissolve in the Cottage Hospital. The local police are baffled, they are going to need a new kind of hero to deal with what is going on.
And here comes one now.
Ellie Anna Lovell, great grand-daughter of Alice (who starred in The Mechanical Messiah and Other Marvels of the Modern Age) has come to Brentford, to work in the offices of the borough’s renowned organ, The Brentford Mercury. This is not going to be easy, because Mr Shields the editor doesn’t have too much time for “girlies”. Ellie does not have too much time for Mr Shields, Ellie is one smart lady and if there is going to be trouble then she’ll be the one to deal with it.
Yet again the suburban paradise that is Brentford is under twin attack from the forces of evil and the threat of being turned into a theme-park, and this time the only saviours in sight are a bright young lady with an inordinate fondness for surf and turf and shoes to die for, an aspiring journalist and poet with an unhealthy addiction to video games and two oldsters with attitude. Follow the adventures of Ellie, Derek, Old Pete and Old Vic, learn the basics of Runese (the Universal Tongue invented by - Guess who…?) and discover the terrible secrets behind Mute Corp and all those video games which seemed so much fun at the time and find out whether Brentford can be saved, once more, from certain doom.

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From the Publisher

They wrote it off as a scare story. The Millennium Bug: the non-event of the 20th century. But they were wrong, because the Bug is real. It’s a computer virus, and it’s about to make the deadly species crossover from machine to mankind. The Black Death was spread by rats. This plague will be spread by a mouse. The computer mouse. And do you know how many different kinds of computer viruses there are? And just what they might do to you if you become infected? No? To find out more, read this book. Or just log on to the Brentfordland® web site. Go on. What harm can it do? When Robert Rankin embarked on his writing career in the late 1970s, he created an entirely new literary genre: Far-Fetched Fiction. Today, this bestselling author has more than 200 web sites dedicated to his work. Among his many books are The Brentwood Trilogy (five books) and Armageddon: The Musical.