eBook-Tipp: Thursday Next – Literarische SciFi von Jasper Fforde

Jasper Fforde, geb. 1961, ist ein englischer Autor sehr ungewöhnlicher Bücher zwischen Fantasy, Science Fiction und Parodie, reich an Humor und Wortspielen. Kurzer Hinweis: Vor längerer Zeit hatte ich hier schon mal drei dieser Bücher vorgestellt – aber jetzt gibt es jeden Band für jeweils nur 99 Cent!

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The Eyre Affair

Literarische SciFi von Jasper Fforde

Meet Thursday Next, literary detective without equal, fear or boyfriend. There is another 1985, where London’s criminal gangs have moved into the lucrative literary market, and Thursday Next is on the trail of the new crime wave’s MR Big. Acheron Hades has been kidnapping certain characters from works of fiction and holding them to ransom. Jane Eyre is gone. Missing. Thursday sets out to find a way into the book to repair the damage. But solving crimes against literature isn’t easy when you also have to find time to halt the Crimean War, persuade the man you love to marry you, and figure out who really wrote Shakespeare’s plays.

Band 1 von Thursday Next “Neatly delivers alternate history, Monty Pythonesque comedy skits, Grand Guignol supervillains, thwarted lovers, po-mo intertextuality, political commentary, time travel, vampires, absent-minded inventors, a hard-boiled narrator, and lots, lots more…. Suspend your disbelief, find a quiet corner and just surrender to the storytelling voice of the unstoppable, ever-resourceful Thursday Next.” (The Washington Post) (658 Rezensionen / 4,1 Sterne), 385 Seiten noch günstig?

Lost in a Good Book

Literarische SciFi von Jasper Fforde

Thursday Next, literary detective and newlywed, is back to embark on an adventure that begins, quite literally on her own doorstep. It seems that Landen, her husband of four weeks, actually drowned in an accident when he was two years old. Someone, somewhere, sometime, is responsible. The sinister Goliath Corporation wants its operative Jack Schitt out of the poem in which Thursday trapped him, and it will do almost anything to achieve this – but bribing the ChronoGuard? Is that possible?

Band 2 von Thursday Next “Look, literature doesn’t get any better than this. Creative, funny, deep, well written prose, a lovable character, a wonderfully skewed setting, make that settings, quirky, and fulfilling in every sense.” (Leser) (21 Rezensionen / 4,8 Sterne), 388 Seiten noch günstig?

The Well Of Lost Plots

Literarische SciFi von Jasper Fforde

Leaving Swindon behind her to hide out in the Well of Lost Plots (the place where all fiction is created), Thursday Next, Literary Detective and soon-to-be one parent family, ponders her next move from within an unpublished book of dubious merit entitled ‚Caversham Heights‘. Landen, her husband, is still eradicated, Aornis Hades is meddling with Thursday’s memory, and Miss Havisham – when not sewing up plot-holes in ‚Mill on the Floss‘ – is trying to break the land-speed record on the A409.

Band 3 von Thursday Next “This is great fun for English majors. Fforde’s got words and he not only knows how to use them. He knows how to make them dance.” (Leser) (141 Rezensionen / 4,5 Sterne), 384 Seiten noch günstig?

Something Rotten

Literarische SciFi von Jasper Fforde

Thursday Next, Head of JurisFiction and ex-SpecOps agent, returns to her native Swindon accompanied by a child of two, a pair of dodos and Hamlet, who is on a fact-finding mission in the real world.

Band 4 von Thursday Next “If you like mysteries, Jasper Fforde, references to classic literature, or light satire, I would recommend the Thursday Next novels for you, including this one.” (Leserin) (131 Rezensionen / 4,5 Sterne), 416 Seiten noch günstig?

First Among Sequels

Literarische SciFi von Jasper Fforde

Fourteen years after she pegged out at 1988 SuperHoop, Thursday Next is grappling with a recalcitrant new apprentice, the death of Sherlock Holmes and the inexplicable departure of comedy from the once-hilarious Thomas Hardy novels. Her idle sixteen-year-old would rather sleep all day than save the world from imminent destruction, the government has a dangerously high stupidity surplues, and the Stiltonista Cheese Mafia are causing trouble for Thursday in her hometown of Swindon.

Band 5 von Thursday Next “Fforde is simply a brilliant writer, applying concepts that will leave you wondering if your head is actually attached to your body or purely a figment of your imagination!” (Leser) (44 Rezensionen / 4,5 Sterne), 420 Seiten noch günstig?

One of our Thursdays is Missing

Literarische SciFi von Jasper Fforde

It is a time of unrest in the BookWorld. Only the diplomatic skills of ace literary detective Thursday Next can avert a devastating genre war. But a week before the peace talks, Thursday vanishes. Has she simply returned home to the RealWorld or is this something more sinister? All is not yet lost. Living at the quiet end of speculative fiction is the written Thursday Next, eager to prove herself worth of her illustrious namesake. The written Thursday is soon hot on the trail of her factual alter-ego, and quickly stumbles upon a plot so fiendish that it threatens the very BookWorld itself.

Band 6 von Thursday Next “I think that this episode in the Thursday Next saga is cleverer than ever and Fforde never ceases to amuse and entertain me with his intertextuality, allusions and ideas, and the way that he gently mocks the clichés and forms of fiction, whilst at the same time using them for his own ends. ” (Leser) (61 Rezensionen / 4,2 Sterne), 416 Seiten noch günstig?

The Woman Who Died a Lot

Literarische SciFi von Jasper Fforde

It is a time of unrest in the BookWorld. Only the diplomatic skills of ace literary detective Thursday Next can avert a devastating genre war. But a week before the peace talks, Thursday vanishes. Has she simply returned home to the RealWorld or is this something more sinister? All is not yet lost. Living at the quiet end of speculative fiction is the written Thursday Next, eager to prove herself worth of her illustrious namesake. The written Thursday is soon hot on the trail of her factual alter-ego, and quickly stumbles upon a plot so fiendish that it threatens the very BookWorld itself.

Band 7 von Thursday Next “Book is crazy and so weird as usual and just as I love it.” (Leser) (78 Rezensionen / 4,6 Sterne), 400 Seiten noch günstig?