Imprint: Unbound
Published: 09/03/2017
ISBN: 9781783523177
Length: 256 Pages
Dimensions: 240mm x 26mm x 162mm
Weight: 484g
RRP: £18.99
Epic Space is a hilarious take on contemporary culture as viewed through the twisted prism of ‘Martin’, amoral architectural consultant with a penchant for a long lunch and powerful friends, including members of the Cabinet and HRH the Prince of Wales.
Written in weekly diary form, Martin’s world is a mad and woozy version of our own: one in which Martin and his friend, the nanofuturologist Beansy, can invent Kryptogel – a new building material developed using ‘hard air’. It’s a world where the property wing of the Church of England builds buy-to-let almshouses while ‘bouncy mega-mosques’ have helium-stiffened minarets. An arts correspondent is sacked by a Sunday newspaper and replaced with his own overdressed architectural dachshund. Soot becomes a valuable stock market commodity. A hipster skyscraper is called the Blard. And an ambitious plan is hatched to turn the North around so that it faces south.
Big questions are asked: Is Texture The New Fragrance? Is Modern Modernism Just Post-Modernism But With A Neo-Modernistic Coat On? How Fat is Your Faceprint?
And, reassuringly, there are still plenty of boozy lunches.
Imprint: Unbound
Published: 09/03/2017
ISBN: 9781783523177
Length: 256 Pages
Dimensions: 240mm x 26mm x 162mm
Weight: 484g
RRP: £18.99
"Ian Martin's swearing is an exercise in linguistic baroque that deserves Grade I listing . . . broad comedy for the joy of it."