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The works of Melmont
 The
late twentieth century was stumbling along, weeping as
usual, with widows and orphans in its arms, when it was
abruptly swallowed; not by some sinister ancient Eater of Worlds,
either, but devoured by a twentieth century human, billionaire
publisher Earnest Melmont MC, along with the rest of what used to
be ‘our’ universe. With massive cheek, Melmont has scoffed the lot.
Physics today has a new equation, where e is Everything and M is Melmont;
e<M
The last century is sometimes said to start with Einstein's famous
equation on relativity. It certainly closes with e<M. It would be
tragic, but tragedy alas, does not play in the nano-ruins of
Time and Space we now inhabit. Pleasures of reading,
drinking, or making love, have all become ‘virtual’.
Anyone can build Rome in a morning, before
their coffee-break. Post e<M Space and
Time are both notional, to fit into the
limited space available in Melmont's gut.
Come with me, stranger, friend, and I will show you the rise of Corporal Melmont from the ruins of Berlin, to nuclear weapons trader, leading to to his Transfiguration. You and I may have been a side order when history stopped, but thanks to the enduring furtive magic of carbon and paper, key moments leading up to ‘e’ hour are still recoverable, from the Void. 
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Snoo Wilson Snoo Wilson is a distinguished playwright. He has written the words for a number of musicals, as well as scripts for radio television and film. Created an Honorary Texan in 1993, his earlier novels are Spaceache, Inside Babel, and most recently I, Crowley, published by Mandrake, a comic apologia for The Great Beast. Recommended by the Fortean Times, the Daily Telegraph also found I Crowley "Extremely funny" while Gay Times hailed it as "sordidly entertaining". The works of Melmont is his latest novel. |
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