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Mooncop
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- Book Synopsis
- "Living on the moon.Whatever were we thinking? ...It seems so silly now." The lunar colony is slowly winding down, like a small town circumvented by a new super highway. As our hero, the Mooncop, makes his daily rounds, his beat grows ever smaller, the population dwindles. A young girl runs away, a dog breaks off his leash, an automaton wanders off from the Museum of the Moon. Each day that the Mooncop goes to work, life gets a little quieter and a little lonelier. As in Goliath, Tom Gauld's retelling of the Bible story, the focus in Gauld's science fiction is personal-no big explo-sions or grand reveals, just the incremental dissolution of an abandoned project and a person's slow awakening to his own uselessness. Depicted in the distinctive, matter-of-fact style of his beloved Guardian strips, Mooncop is equal parts funny and melancholy. Gauld captures essential truths about humanity, making this a story of the past, present, and future, all in one.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781770462540
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- Drawn and Quarterly, (20 September 2016)
- Number of Pages
- 94
- Weight
- 308 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 203 x 162 x 12 mm
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