Oh, and the Republic of Wales is an independent country and has turned into a soviet state for a change. Russia never had a Soviet revolution, and is still run by the Tsarist royal family England and Russia have been fighting the Crimean War for 131 years now, the entire thing turning into a Vietnam-like mess that neither side can politically walk away from anymore. What’s more, you are in literature fans’ paradise – reading is as natural as breathing, literary pilgrimages seemingly commonplace and proselytizing groups try to convert others to their belief that, say, Francis Bacon or Christopher Marlowe actually wrote Shakespeare’s plays. The UK is a place where time travel is old news (done that, been there, got a t-shirt), you can clone a long-extinct animal pet of your choice (like a dodo) and corner Will-Speak machines will quote Shakespeare at you. It is set in a surreal (even bordering steampunk) version of Great Britain, somewhere around 1985. T his book is about what can happen when your favorite book comes to life… literally.
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