The End of the World Is Flat (Paperback)

Simon Edge

ISBN 10: 178563240X / ISBN 13: 9781785632402

Published by Eye Books, Much Wenlock, 2021

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Paperback. Nifty, often snort-inducingly funny satire The TimesMel Winterbournes modest map-making charity, the Orange Peel Foundation, has achieved all its aims and shes 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 masters behest, Mels 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. A satire about a Flat Earth ideological takeover, in which teachers and airline pilots get sacked for heretical globularism Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The End of the World Is Flat (Paperback)
• Publisher: Eye Books, Much Wenlock
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 178563240X
• ISBN 13: 9781785632402
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

‘Skewers the trans rights row with some nifty, often snort-inducingly funny satire’ THE TIMES

‘A bracingly sharp satire on the sleep of reason and the tyranny of twaddle’ FRANCIS WHEEN

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.

About the Author

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?.