East of Ealing explained

East of Ealing is a novel by Robert Rankin published in 1984. It is the third novel in Rankin's Brentford Trilogy.

Plot summary

East of Ealing is a novel in which Pooley and Omally contend with perpetual motion, robots, time travel, Merlin, Sherlock Holmes and an Antichrist fond of microchips.

Reception

Dave Langford reviewed East of Ealing for White Dwarf #54, and stated that "its best feature is the very funny dialogue of heroes Pooley and Omally and I laughed like a drain at (eg) their appalled discovery that Eden was in Brentford, Babylon in Chiswick, and the Virgin Mary's birthplace in Penge."^[1]

Reviews

• Review by Lynne Bispham (1993) in Vector 172^[2]
• Review by Chris Gilmore (1993) in Interzone, #72 June 1993
• Review [German] by Gerd Frey (1999) in Alien Contact, Nummer 35

Notes and References

1. Langford . Dave . David Langford . Critical Mass . . 54 . 24 . . June 1984 .
2. https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?9386