East of Ealing

East of Ealing is a novel by Robert Rankin published in 1984. It is the third novel in Rankin's Brentford Trilogy.

Plot summary

East of Ealing is a novel in which Pooley and Omally contend with perpetual motion, robots, time travel, Merlin, Sherlock Holmes and an Antichrist fond of microchips.

It is a part of the genre of Far Fetched Fiction, a genre originally created by its author.

Reception

Dave Langford reviewed East of Ealing for White Dwarf #54, and stated that "its best feature is the very funny dialogue of heroes Pooley and Omally"

Reviews

• Review by Lynne Bispham (1993) in Vector 172
• Review by Chris Gilmore (1993) in Interzone, #72 June 1993
• Review [German] by Gerd Frey (1999) in Alien Contact, Nummer 35

References