{"title":"Alan Moore","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"illuminations-limited-edition","title":"Illuminations - Limited Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003e'A wonderful collection, brilliant and often moving ... Both mind-expanding and cosmic while utterly rooted in our urban reality'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNEIL GAIMAN\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'One of the great fiction minds of his generation' \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eROLLING STONE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn his first-ever short story collection, which spans forty years of work and features many never-before-published pieces, international bestselling author and legendary creator of \u003cem\u003eFrom Hell\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe League of Extraordinary Gentlemen\u003c\/em\u003e and other modern classics, Alan Moore, presents nine stories full of wonder and strangeness, each taking us deeper into the fantastical underside of reality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eA Hypothetical Lizard\u003c\/em\u003e, two concubines in a brothel for fantastical specialists fall in love, with tragic ramifications. 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And in the monumental novella \u003cem\u003eWhat We Can Know About Thunderman\u003c\/em\u003e, which charts the surreal and Kafkaesque history of the comics industry over the last seventy-five years through several sometimes-naive and sometimes-maniacal people rising and falling on its career ladders, Moore reveals the dark, beating heart of the superhero business.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom ghosts and otherworldly creatures to theoretical Boltzmann brains fashioning the universe at the big bang, \u003cem\u003eIlluminations\u003c\/em\u003e is exactly that - a series of bright, startling tales from a contemporary legend that reveal the full power of imagination and magic.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'One of the most significant fiction writers in English ... 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One day, on an errand to acquire books for sale, Dennis discovers a novel that simply does not exist. It is a fictitious book, a figment from another novel. Yet it is physically there in his hands. How?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDennis has stumbled on a book from the Great When, a magical version of London beyond time and space, where reality blurs with fiction and concepts such as Crime and Poetry are incarnated as wondrous, terrible beings. But this other, magical London must remain a secret: if Dennis cannot find a way to return this book to where it belongs, he risks bizarre and disastrous repercussions, such as his body being turned inside out (or worse).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSo begins a journey delving deep into the city's occult underbelly and tarrying with an eccentric cast of sorcerers, gangsters, and murderers - some from legend, some all too real, and all with plans of their own. 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