Publisher's Synopsis
It all began thirty years ago on Mars, with a greenperson. but by the time it all finished, the town of Desolation Road had experienced every concievable abnormality from Adam Black's Wonderful Travelling Chataqua and Educational 'Stravaganza (complete with its very own captive angel) to the Astounding Tatterdemalion Air Bazaar. Its inhabitants ranged from Dr Alimantando, the town's founder and resident genius to the Babooshka, a barren grandmother who just wants her own child - grown in a fruit jar; from Rajendra Das, mechanical hobo who has a mystical way with machines to the Gallacelli brothers, identical triplets who fell in love with - and married - the same woman.
A rich mixture of science fiction and magical realism, DESOLATION ROAD is one of SF's seminal works, seeing UK paperback publication for the first time in ten years.
