Erik Ryman is an artist and writer based in Bristol but originally born in Birmingham. His previous work has been critically acclaimed, and includes a novel A"God's GameA", a novella A"Doctor MoozeA" and a collection of short stories, A"the tsetsefly chronicles.A"
'Narrative punctuated by Vonnegut-type apercus 'Doggone' is an inventive satire that Swift, Pope, et al, would have been happy to have put their name to. A future-set retrospective on a 21st century Britain, contemporary bullshit is taken to excess as the entire country is bought by two civil servants with points on a loyalty card. Vignettes of absurdist dialogues - think Pete'n Dud, Bird and Fortune - detail all too credible nonsense secenarios. And funny, laugh aloud funny. No institution, no region, no nation, no profession, no occupation, (no individual?) is spared at least a scathing aside. Erik himself makes an appearance as a sadistic p.a.: thankfully I don't rate a mention. Unless I'm that 'piece of worthless shit' Smythe. Crazy, funny, and all too plausible; so please don't show Doggone to that arch-creep Gordon Brown: with no ideas of his own he might well use Doggone as a template.' - Sam Smith, Author of 'The End of Science Fiction''Get in the queue now for this book which is likely to become a cult classic...' - DJ Kirkby, Literary to Sensory
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