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"A display for Green's bone-dry satire and deadpan comedy, Green's nimble creativity continuously wrong-foots the audience. A delight."-Peter Ingham, The Telegraph"The job of the gifted writer having plenty of really wise enjoyment"-- S Y Winser, Booksquawk.comSmallworld is much like nothing you have ever read before, certainly revolutionary speculative hype from Hugo-selected Brit SF writer Dominic Green.Mount Ararat is not your typical extrasolar agrarian nest. A global how big an asteroid however having Planet-standard seriousness, Mount Ararat plays host to some unusually assured household whose kids are guarded by the Demon, a physical killing device, from these passers-by as Mr von Trapp (an escapee from a penal colony), the Created (constructed people being hunted by their State), and the super-wealthy customers of the gravitational club proven at Mount Araratis South Pole. However it quickly transpires that the Demon is harbouring an old and dangerous secret.Enjoyed Smallworld?