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The Washington Post calls him 'gloriously demented'.  Michael Moorcock considers him 'almost the sum of our planet's literature.' Whereas Brian Aldiss happily reports: 'Just beginning to read: saliva already forming on chin.'

Rhys Hughes is something of a genre unto himself and Humdrumming are proud to be publishing his latest book, The Less Lonely Planet:

A collection of inexplicably joined short stories and tales from Rhys Hughes, the author who is to convention what apricots are to armadillos. 32 tales about life, non-melodic sounds, cats, adventures, love, bread, circuses, pyramids, ducks, and more!

Since time immemorial, the planet Earth has revolved around the sun on its own, carrying one species of technically advanced hominids, a handful of basic urges, a dozen or so original plots. But a very slow collision with the rogue world Happenstance is about to change all that.

The two celestial bodies will fuse together into a single object, doubling the surface area, trebling the population, quadrupling the number of resonant archetypes, multiplying by a millionfold the virtues of hyperbole!

A less lonely Earth means more high adventure, more low morals, more medium rares. Oh yes!

The Less Lonely Planet is a 216mm x 138 PPC Hardcover (ie no Dust Jacket but fully illustrated boards, cover can be seen at http://www.humdrumming.co.uk/books/978-1-905532-52-0.html) and retails at just £14.99 ($30.00 or so).  The book doesn't normally come signed BUT as an extra incentive to assist you sell the book I can guarantee signed copies of all initial preorders. I will chain the mad Welshman to a pub table and force him to scribble in sufficient copies to meet demand (note: we are launching this title at a London pub on the 26th April and Rhys will sign them then with orders shipped immediately after).

Let me know how many you'd like me to put you down for.

Guy Adams
(On Behalf of Humdrumming)