Delivery takes approximately 4-7 business days.

This title is In Stock in the Booktopia Distribution Centre. We will send you a confirmation email with a Tracking Code to follow the progress of your parcel when it ships.

Sci-fi Posters From Beyond The Stars Author: Empire

ISBN: 9781742457680 Format: Hardcover Number Of Pages: 96 Published: 30 May 2016 Country of Publication: AU Dimensions (cm): 34.5 x 25.8 x 1.5 Description: Shortlisted for the 2015 Man Booker prize

*Shortlisted for the 2015 Goldsmiths Prize *

'A horrifyingly comic novel of ideas with its fingers jammed into the light-socket of the age' Guardian

'A Kafka for the Google Age' Daily Telegraph

Meet U. - a talented and uneasy figure currently pimping his skills to an elite consultancy in contemporary London. His employers advise everyone from big businesses to governments, and, to this end, expect their 'corporate anthropologist' to help decode and manipulate the world around them - all the more so now that a giant, epoch-defining project is in the offing.

Instead, U. spends his days procrastinating, meandering through endless buffer-zones of information and becoming obsessed by the images with which the world bombards him on a daily basis: oil spills, African traffic jams, roller-blade processions, zombie parades. Is there, U. wonders, a secret logic holding all these images together - a codex that, once cracked, will unlock the master-meaning of our age? Might it have something to do with South Pacific Ca...

Returns Policy: 30-day money back guarantee for return if the item is not as described, is damaged or is faulty. We do not offer a refund if you change your mind.

Customs Charges & Duties: Orders over the value of $270 will be liable for customs charges, taxes including GST and brokerage costs which are the recipient's sole responsibility.