Robert Rankin

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  • Bibliography:
    35 Books (4 Series)
  • First Book:
    March 1990
  • Latest Book:
    December 2013
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Full Series List in Order

Armageddon Trilogy

1 - Armageddon: The Musical (Mar-1990)
2 - They Came and Ate Us (Apr-1992)
3 - The Suburban Book of the Dead (Apr-1992)

Brentford

1 - The Antipope (Feb-1992)
2 - The Brentford Triangle (Aug-1992)
3 - East of Ealing (Dec-1992)
4 - The Sprouts of Wrath (Oct-1993)
5 - The Brentford Chain-store Massacre (Dec-1997)
7 - Knees Up Mother Earth (Aug-2005)
8 - The Brightonomicon (Jul-2005)
Sex & Drugs & Sausage Rolls (Sep-1999)

Completely Barking Mad Trilogy

1 - Sprout Mask Replica (Jun-1997)
2 - The Dance of the Voodoo Handbag (Jun-1998)
3 - Waiting for Godalming (Mar-2002)

The Cornelius Murphy Trilogy

1 - The Book of Ultimate Truths (Jul-1993)
2 - Raiders of the Lost Car Park (May-1994)
3 - The Most Amazing Man Who Ever Lived (Apr-1995)

Book List in Order: 35 titles

  • Armageddon: The Musical

    Armageddon Trilogy - 1

    “To the top-selling ranks of humorists such as Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett, let us welcome Mr. Rankin.” -- The Times (London)

    From the point of view of 2050, you’re history.
     
    Theological warfare, Elvis on an epic time-tr...

  • The Antipope

    Brentford - 1

    This story uncovers suburbia's darkest secrets -- mostly in The Flying Swan, where Neville the barman and Archroy, owner of five magic beans, do battle with beasts of the occult -- and in particular the rather unpleasant Pope Alexander VI, the last o...

  • The Suburban Book of the Dead

    Armageddon Trilogy - 3

    This is the final part of the "Armageddon Trilogy". When Rex finds himself back on Earth in the final hours before the nuclear holocaust, things really start to confuse him. Can he save the world before he himself is atomized by the Repo Man who appe...

  • They Came and Ate Us

    Armageddon Trilogy - 2

    Continuing the theme of Armageddon: The Musical, this book chronicles the further adventures of characters such as Rambo Bloodaxe, Deathblade Eric, and Hugo Rune, caught up in events beyond their control....

  • The Brentford Triangle

    Brentford - 2

    A sequel to The Antipope, this is the second novel in "The Brentford Trilogy." All over Brentford electrical appliances were beginning to fail -- could it be that it had been chosen as the first base in an alien onslaught on planet Earth?...

  • East of Ealing

    Brentford - 3

  • The Book of Ultimate Truths

    The Cornelius Murphy Trilogy - 1

    The late Hugh Artemis Solon Saturnicus Reginald Arthur Rune, hailed as the guru's guru, penned more than eight million words of genius, but vital chapters which could have changed the course of history were suppressed. Two youths set out to recover t...

  • The Sprouts of Wrath

    Brentford - 4

    The fourth part of the "Brentford Trilogy". Amazing, but true, Brentford Town Council has agreed to host the next Olympic Games. However, something sinister is afoot in Brentford, and it is up to the regulars of The Flying Swan to save the world as w...

  • Raiders of the Lost Car Park

    The Cornelius Murphy Trilogy - 2

    Hugo Rune returns. And just in time, for the evil fairies of Brentford are planning to conquer the world. To publicise his mission, Hugo plans to kidnap the Queen while she addresses the world before a gig by the greatest rock band on earth, Gandhi's...



  • The Greatest Show Off Earth

  • The Most Amazing Man Who Ever Lived

    The Cornelius Murphy Trilogy - 3

    Norman's definitely dead. His dad fell out of the sky and flattened him. And as Norman didn't want any regular full-time employment before he died, he certainly doesn't want any now, especially here at the Universal Reincarnation Company. There are t...

  • The Garden of Unearthly Delights

    Dave's baked ham took wing in splendour while he stood at the check-out queue at Budgens. It was something to do with the cycles of history. The Earth had left behind the age of science and reason and moved into a time of myth and wonder. It was time...

  • A Dog Called Demolition

    Danny is not sad and lonely anymore, because Danny has "the voice", the voice of an imaginary dog called Demolition. The dog tells him what to do, like how to adjust the bar code reader in the shop, so he can read what people are thinking. Soon, Dann...

  • Nostradamus Ate My Hamster

    Robert wants to be a star in the movies. He has invented a system with his computer that could put the old stars back on the screen, alongside him. He has the script and the money, but Hollywood isn't keen. Could the perfect partnership lie with Erne...

  • Sprout Mask Replica

    Completely Barking Mad Trilogy - 1

    His great-great-grandfather died at the Battle of Little Big Horn after going to complain about the noise; his grandfather spoke only in rhyming couplets; his father practised body modification; and then there was him - he was the weird one. The them...

  • The Brentford Chain-store Massacre

    Brentford - 5

  • The Dance of the Voodoo Handbag

    Completely Barking Mad Trilogy - 2

    The story of Billy, whose Grandmother left him the voodoo handbag in her will, after he had sold her soul to science. The tales it told Billy would change his life for ever - and the lives of other people too....

  • Apocalypso

    The Ministry of Serendipity at Mornington Crescent runs everything. When it hears of a spacecraft that crashed into the Pacific 4000 years ago, it sends a team of paranormal investigators to recover it. Danbury Collins is in the team - but he isn't k...

  • Snuff Fiction

    We read him for his exuberant salmagundi of old jokes, myths, urban and otherwise, catchphrases, liberatingly crazy ideas, running gags, recurring characters and locations, unreliable autobiographical anecdotes, and not forgetting the now legendary '...



  • Sex & Drugs & Sausage Rolls

    Brentford

  • Waiting for Godalming

    Completely Barking Mad Trilogy - 3

    God's other son, Colin, who was edited out of the Bible when Jesus got artistic control, is a bit pissed off. Well wouldn't you be, with your brother stealing the lime-light like that? But now God's been murdered, and there's no way Colin's gonna let...

  • The Fandom of the Operator

  • The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse

    A hilarious comic fantasy from the bestselling cult creator of the Brentford Triangle TrilogyOnce upon a time Jack set out to find his fortune in the big city. But the big city is Toy City, formerly known as Toy Town, and it has grown considerably si...

  • The Witches of Chiswick

    We have all been lied to. A great and sinister conspiracy exists to keep us from uncovering the truth about our past.Have you ever wondered how Victorians dreamed up all that fantastic futuristic fiction? Did it ever occur to you that it might just h...

  • The Brightonomicon

    Brentford - 8

    Were you aware that there are, hidden in the streets of Brighton, twelve ancient constellations, like the Hangleton Hound and the Bevendean Bat... well, there are: and on each one hangs a tale, a tale so strange that only The Lad Himself, that invete...

  • Knees Up Mother Earth

    Brentford - 7

    Magic, time travel and football: not exactly your everyday combination - but the fate of mankind hangs upon the result. Of course.There's big trouble in little Brentford. Property developers are planning to destroy the borough's beloved football grou...

  • The Toyminator

    Somewhere over the rainbow and just off the Yellow Brick Road stands Toy City, formerly known as Toy Town. And things are not going well for the city's inhabitants. There have been outbreaks of STC - Spontaneous Toy Combustion - and there are strange...

  • The Da-Da-de-Da-Da Code

    Jonny Hooker has been picked as a WINNER! and all he has to do to claim his prize is to solve the Da-da-de-da-da Code. Jonny knows that beat; it always turns up in popular music - like 'Waltzing Matilda', or the National Anthem. And it has something ...

  • Necrophenia

    ONE IN EVERY THREE PEOPLE LIVING IS ACTUALLY DEAD!It is a matter of historical record that during the latter part of World War II, England's top-secret Ministry of Serendipity enlisted the services of arch-magician Aleister Crowley to create a Homunc...



  • Retromancer

    There is big and evil magic abroad upon the face of the Earth. History has been changed. The Germans have won WWII. America is a nuclear wasteland. And worst of all, the breakfast menu at The Wife's Legs Café in Brentford is serving Bratwurst rather...

  • The Japanese Devil Fish Girl and Other Unnatural Attractions

    The pickled Martian's tentacles are fraying at the ends and Professor Coffin's Most Meritorious Unnatural Attraction (the remains of the original alien autopsy, performed by Sir Frederick Treves at the London Hospital) is no longer drawing the crowds...

  • The Mechanical Messiah and Other Marvels of the Modern Age

    Colonel Katterfelto has lately returned to London. He departed America under something of a cloud ... of smoke, issuing from his Spiritual Laboratory, which the townsfolk of Wormcast, Arizona, marched upon with their flaming torches. This catastroph...

  • The Educated Ape and Other Wonders of the Worlds

    An epic in four movements, this is the third book in Robert Rankin's highly acclaimed meta-Victorian series. Comparable to Pratchett or Douglas Adams, the Father of Far Fetched Fiction has pulled out all of the stops with this riotous tale of wicked ...

  • The Chickens of Atlantis and Other Foul and Filthy Fiends

    Robert Rankin, the master of far-fetched fiction, presents, for the first time, a book written in 'the first monkey'. Sure to be taken up as the newest of literary fads, Darwin, the Educated Ape here tells his life story to his legions of fans.Featur...

  • Web Site Story

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    They wrote it off as a scare story. The Millennium Bug, the non-event of the twentieth century. But they were wrong, because the Bug was real. Is real. It's a computer virus and it's about to make the deadly species crossover from machine to mankind....

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Robert Rankin has published 35 books.

Robert Rankin does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Chickens of Atlantis and Other Foul and Filthy Fiends, was published in December 2013.

The first book by Robert Rankin, Armageddon: The Musical, was published in March 1990.

Yes. Robert Rankin has 4 series.
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