jasper fforde

I happen to be reading Bright New Universe (1967) by Jack Williamson, and this bit of self-reference shows up in dialogue early in the novel. This is obviously a reference to Williamson's own novel The Humanoids. Ever see something like this elsewhere?

The continuing adventures of Thusday Next, literary detective, based in an altogether more colourful alternative world to our own, though one that still has Swindon in it. A world where literary crimes can spill out of fiction and into the real and the real can sometimes spill into the world of...

I just scanned some summaries by novels written by Jasper Fforde (I forget how I alighted on him) and I think his ideas really sound appealing to me, considering how a lot of them seem to be about alternate histories. Is there a novel of his you find particularly compelling or quintessential to...

Journalist Henrietta ‘Goldilocks’ Hatchett has disappeared just before breaking a story about unexplained exploding cucumbers. She was last seen alive by the Three Bears and now Detective Jack Spratt and his sidekick Mary Mary must unravel the mystery that seems to keep leading them back to the...

Take a big pot and throw in a murder mystery or two, add as many nursery rhymes as you can remember, simmer over a low heat for a few hours and serve. What you end up with might be something similar to The Big Over Easy. This is fairly typical Jasper Fforde fair; clever, witty spoof that makes...

The Big Over Easy Jasper Fforde Viking, Jul 2005, $24.95 ISBN: 0670034231 In Reading, England Nursery Crimes Davison Detective Jack Spratt is upset that his latest open and shut homicide case fell apart as the court declared those three murdering pigs not guilty of first-degree murder of Mr...

The Fourth Bear Jasper Fforde Viking, Aug 2006, $24.95 ISBN 0670037729 PDR, a Person of Dubious Reality to the illiterate, Reading Police Department Detective Criminal Investigator Jack Spratt of the Nursery Crime Division is as always in trouble with the brassy brass for literally his success...

First Among Sequels Jasper Fforde Viking, Jul 2007, $24.95 ISBN: 9780670038718 Acme Carpets undercover Special Operations investigator Thursday Next’s son Friday is a sixteen year old pain in the butt, who prefers sleeping in rather than following a plot. His literary agent mom fails to...

Shades of Grey Jasper Fforde Viking, Dec 29 2009, $25.95 ISBN 9780670019632 It has been hundreds of years since the formation of the Colortocracy was formed to rule the world. The rules are 100 percent enforced with a rigid restrictiveness based on the color scale. What one sees is where one...

One of Our Thursdays Is Missing Jasper Fforde Viking, Mar 8 2011, $25.95 ISBN: 9780670022526 In BookWorld, the dispute between the various genres has not always been civilized as insults are literally ugly. The Council of genres tries to keep the peaceful coexistence from becoming a book...

3/5 stars Enter the crazy world of Thusday Next, where the border between fiction and reality is becoming distinctly blurred. An alternate reality/history (or is it just one whose history has been altered by the French revisionists?) where the pet of choice is a gene-spliced Dodo, where...

There is already a thread here on his Thursday Next series but I thought Shades of Grey: The Road to High Saffron was so brilliant (pun intended) that the series deserves it's own thread + I have lots of questions that need answers. From the other thread: I'm in the same position as aboyes. I...

I have just stumbled on this series by Jasper Fforde. I have never read anything by him and have no idea about his stuff. This series seems to be kind of alternative reality thing and very definitely comedy/satire. As best I can understand it it is set in Bookworld - a world created by all the...

Has anyone read either of his book series, the Thursday Next or Nursery Crime books? Both very entertaining and very funny in my opinion. They're not science fiction, suppose they could fit into fantasy as while they are both set in England, they are both sort of in a parallel universe. The...

I suddenly remembered the delightful Thursday Next books. I've read the first few but didn't follow up. Have anyone read the latest First Among Sequels and his two nursery crimes books and what do you think about them?

While I was reading one of Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next books, a friend of mine asked what it was about. After trying for five fruitless minutes to explain even a tenth of the gist, I gave up. Thankfully, while his newest offering, The Fourth Bear, is not nearly so convuluted, it is just as...

Should he be included in the list of authors? Personally I fell in love with his work as soon as I'd finished the first chapter of The Well Of Lost Plots (yes I didn't read the first book first). And since then I've read all of the Next books and I'm awaiting an amazon delivery of The Big Over...

http://bookbrowse.com/author_interviews/full/index.cfm?author_number=737 I just read this interview and found it fun and amusing. Since Fforde's Thursday Next series has been mentioned here before I thought I'd share.

As someone as already read some of his books ? I may have an opportunity to interview him and I need every info you can give me. Thanks for your help.