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The End of the World Is Flat Simon Edge

The End of the World Is Flat By Simon Edge

The End of the World Is Flat by Simon Edge


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Summary

A comedy featuring Christopher Columbus, a tech billionaire and a global delusion

The End of the World Is Flat Summary

The End of the World Is Flat by Simon Edge

Mel Winterbourne's modest map-making charity, the Orange Peel Foundation, has achieved all its aims and she's ready to shut it down. But glamorous tech billionaire Joey Talavera has other ideas. He hijacks the foundation for his own purpose: to convince the world that the earth is flat. Using the dark arts of social media at his new master's behest, Mel's ruthless young successor, Shane Foxley, turns science on its head. He persuades gullible online zealots that old-style 'globularism' is hateful. Teachers and airline pilots face ruin if they reject the new 'True Earth' orthodoxy. Can Mel and her fellow heretics - vilified as 'True-Earth Rejecting Globularists' (Tergs) - thwart Orange Peel before insanity takes over? Might the solution to the problem lie in the 15th century? Using his trademark mix of history and satire to poke fun at modern foibles, Simon Edge is at his razor-sharp best in a caper that may be more relevant than you think.

The End of the World Is Flat Reviews

'I laughed so hard I nearly fell in my cauldron. A masterpiece' - Julie Bindel, 'A bracingly sharp satire on the sleep of reason and the tyranny of twaddle' - Francis Wheen, 'Animal Farm for the era of gender lunacy, with jokes' - Jane Harris, 'Skewers the insanity of gender ideology with the wit and brilliance of a modern-day Swift' - Helen Joyce, 'This merry romp punctures the idiocy that would turn language and good sense upside down and divide us all into true believers or bigots' - Simon Fanshawe, 'Very, very funny - and a completely believable account of how this kind of ideology could seep into great institutions' - Gillian Philip

About Simon Edge

Simon Edge was born in Chester and read philosophy at Cambridge University. He was editor of the pioneering London paper Capital Gay before becoming a gossip columnist on the Evening Standard and then a feature writer on the Daily Express, where he was also a theatre critic for many years. He has an MA in Creative Writing from City University, London, where he also taught literary criticism. He is the author of four novels: The Hopkins Conundrum, longlisted for the Waverton Good Read Award, The Hurtle of Hell, A Right Royal Face-Off, and Anyone for Edmund?.

Additional information

GOR011943385
9781785632402
178563240X
The End of the World Is Flat by Simon Edge
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Eye Books
20210816
304
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