One for Rankin fans...

[lostcarpark]

flickgc spotted this in Spectator Life and Letters:

A book flops wetly through the letterbox. Blimey. This one is truely intriguing. Knees Up Mother Earth is what it's called. The front cover shows what looks like a replica of the FA cup, or something like that, sculpted out of bottlecaps. The back cover shows a bald, bearded, intense-looking man wearing a black robe and a pentangle medallion, cradling a cartoon rabbit. The rabbit has a pierced ear. One of these two, we are allowed to assume, is the author, Robert Rankin. A coverline announces that this is 'the seventh novel in the increasingly legendary Brentford Trilogy'.

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[robthefish.livejournal.com]

I just found a copy of "Burning Chrome" that Mr Rankin had signed _as_ 'William Gibson'. The dedication reads, "You are my inspiration" :-)

Robert was at a book signing at the now defunct "Andromeda" bookshop in Brum. I wasn't buying his book that day but said I'd be quite happy for him to sign one I had just bought. So he did :-)

Would that raise any money at a (Sproutlore) charity auction do you think?