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The Instant Cricket Library: An Imagined Anthology

Autor Dan Liebke
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 10 ian 2019
In Dan Liebkes debut cricket book, The Instant Cricket Library, youll find excerpts from a number of remarkable cricket books, none of which youve ever read before. Theres I, Pad, Shane Watsons infamous manifesto arguing that the LBW Law should be abolished. Theres Out of My Ed, in which youll discover the truth about the real Ed Cowan. Theres a Banner-Man comic book, a Mitch Marsh play, and much more. Theyre all part of the Instant Cricket Library. Imagine a world after a complete societal collapse. A big collapse, like Australia on a raging Chennai turner. In this dystopian future, all of the worlds cricket books have been destroyed. Nothing remains, not even the Steve Waugh autobiographies, which were previously believed to be impervious not just to casual readers, but to all known forms of physical damage. And yet, a hardy group of researchers search desperately for hints of what might have been lost. A title here. A snippet of text there. A tattered cover somewhere else. They gather all the clues theyve discovered of the lost world of cricketing literature, and enter them into a hastily constructed supercomputer. Finally, with a burst of makeshift artificial intelligence, they extrapolate from those fragments and regenerate a complete cricket library in an instant. This instant cricket library is a marvel of resourcefulness, and a glorious tribute to the ingenuity and determination of humanity, even when faced with the most nightmarish and cricketless of futures. Just because a cricket book never existed doesn't mean it's not worth reading.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781921778902
ISBN-10: 1921778903
Pagini: 192
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.22 kg
Editura: The Slattery Media Group
Colecția The Slattery Media Group

Recenzii

"I was in the Avenue of Apprehension when I picked up Dan Liebke's book, but it hooned away down the Boulevard of Brilliance." - Damien 'The Bowlologist' Fleming

Cuprins

Introduction; Wicket; The Little Master; Did Aliens Invent Cricket; The Importance of Being Mitch Marsh; The Curious Case of the Cricketer and the Cursed Castle; The Future of the Ashes; The Loophole; Food Theory; Struck Downby a Queer Spell; An Amazing Day Off; The Battle of Eden; It's The End ofthe World Cup as We Know it; A Tiny Ripple of Hope; The Sights and the Sounds; The Stunning Secret Origen of Banner-Man!; Introduction to International Cricket:A Time line; Christmas Comes Early; Listomania; Cricket Goes Deluxe; Masking the Darkness; Head in the Couds; Infinite Improbability Drive; Popular Landmarks for the Ashes Holiday Bucket List; The Truth Behind Allegations of Spot-Fixing-Fixing; Wicked Maidens; Freeway of Finality; Averages, Geometry and Combinatorics - the Quiz; The Modern Game; Jedis, Jokers & The Don; Being the Best; Handled The Ball; Expanded Cricket Roles; Calling it in; A Serpent's Lament; Waiting For a Return; Astonishing True Secret No. 41 -Murali's Mural; Meeting Minutes - Third Ashes Test, 2017-18; 'The Battles of Dawson'; The Art of Warner; The Genious of Bad Cricket; 'What I Learned About Mateship Down Under'; Bulging Lists and Uncolicited Tips; The Perimeter of Identity; The Book of Botham 19:81