Venus on the Half-Shell

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A KILGORE TROUT NOVEL When the planet is destroyed during a botched cleaning operation, Simon Wagstaff narrowly escapes the deluge on an abandoned Chinese spaceship and becomes Earth's lone survivor. Accompanied by his pets—an owl and a dog— and a beautiful robot companion, Wagstaff adventures through space seeking the definitive answer to the ultimate question: why are we created only to suffer and die? Featuring brand-new afterwords By Jonathan Swift Somers III and Christopher Paul Carey.

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285 printed pages

Copyright owner: Bookwire
Original publication: 2013
Publication year: 2013

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tontchahas quoted3 years ago
But, Your Ancientship, what about Chance?” “No such thing. What seems Chance is merely ignorance on the part of the beholder. If he knew enough, he’d see that things could not have happened otherwise.”
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tontchahas quoted3 years ago
“It doesn’t matter what it is, somebody will find a way to make a profit off of it.” This was a quotation from one of Somers’ novels, The Sargasso Sea of Space.
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She had made Chworktap nervous, which, in turn, had made her nervous, which, in turn, had increased Chworktap’s nervousness. Their relationship was what the scientists called negative feedback.
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