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Peter Agambar

The universe has rules. Someone is already filling them in incorrectly.

Peter Agambar Gobblesplot Publishing

Peter Agambar writes comic–philosophical science fiction, in the tradition of Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett, and other people who understood that the universe is mostly held together with forms.

Before writing full time, he worked across an improbable range of careers, including Royal Navy medic, chef, bricklayer, dispatch rider, teacher, and software engineer.

His books explore bureaucracy at a cosmic scale, accidental heroism, administrative overreach, and the dangerous idea that signing something might actually matter.

Read the series Chapters Are Not Playthings

The Universe vs Alan

Edition 2 — the first three books are now available

For billions of years, reality has operated under a simple assumption:

Somebody knows what they are doing.

Unfortunately, that assumption is about to encounter Alan Powndsland.

When a routine roadside mishap reconnects Alan with his old friend Sid, a tow-truck driver with a talent for fixing almost anything, events rapidly spiral beyond the limits of common sense. Portals appear where vending machines should be. Interstellar bureaucrats start issuing instructions. Ancient instruments begin rewriting reality. And somewhere deep within the machinery of existence, a long-forgotten contingency plan is unexpectedly activated.

As Alan and Sid are swept into a cosmos governed by forms, regulations, committees and consequences, they discover that the universe is far stranger than anyone imagined. Missing moons, displaced dinosaurs, impossible paperwork and administrative departments responsible for maintaining causality are merely the beginning.

Because some mistakes can be corrected.

Some can be documented.

Some can even be filed.

But once contingency planning has been enacted, nobody is entirely certain what happens next.

Chapters Are Not Playthings combines:
  • Absurdist British humour
  • Science-fiction adventure
  • Bureaucratic satire
  • Unexpected philosophy
  • Friendship, loyalty and consequence
  • A healthy disregard for conventional reality

Perfect for readers who enjoy intelligent comic science fiction, imaginative world-building and stories that ask very serious questions in the least sensible way possible.

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