Love in the Time of Fridges
  • Published: 15 October 2008
  • ISBN: 9780553384413
  • Imprint: Random House Worlds
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $29.99

Love in the Time of Fridges

A Novel

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Tim Scott’s Outrageous Fortune marked the debut of one of the most wildly inventive writers to hit the sci-fi scene in years. Now he returns with a hilarious yet poignant novel of love, loss, and itinerant appliances.

“New Seattle Health and Safety. Do not die for no reason.” This is the motto of a city so obsessed with the danger of sharp corners that it has almost forgotten how to live. But Huckleberry Lindbergh is about to find his trip to the city most decidedly unsafe. For a chance encounter leads him into the heart of a dark conspiracy. And in order to stop it, this former cop is about to do something so unsafe—so monumentally stupid—that its reverberations will be felt all the way to the Pentagon.

Soon he is on the run from more authorities than he has had hot meals, his staunchest allies a bunch of feral fridges that give new meaning to the words “chill out.” But sometimes a dose of chaos is just what the doctor ordered, and Huck’s quest to remain among the living teaches not only him but those around him the true meaning of survival . . . in all its forms.
  • Published: 15 October 2008
  • ISBN: 9780553384413
  • Imprint: Random House Worlds
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $29.99
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About the author

Tim Scott

Tim Scott graduated from Cambridge University, England, and decided to use his hard fought education to work a plasterer, decorator and delivery driver.

He writing career began with a training video which warned office staff that falling over could be dangerous. He then went on to write and appear on BBC Radio 4 in around fifty comedy half hours—and finally ended up being given his own late night comedy television series on network ITV. It ran for twenty six episodes and was so surreal that even Ionesco or Salvador Dali would have been shaking their heads in confusion.

He has written a large number of children's books, and also for children's television. He more recently became a television director and in 2003 won a BAFTA for co writing and directing a children's series, "Ripley and Scuff," for the BBC. He likes to travel around the world, often in search of surf.

Praise for Love in the Time of Fridges

Praise for Outrageous Fortune:

  • "The most bizarre, profound and beautiful novel I've read in a long, long time." -- Michael Marshall (Smith), author of Blood of Angels
  • "Outrageous Fortune is captivating, absorbing, infuriating and disturbingly funny; it takes you hostage on the very first page and refuses to let you go until all its demands have been met." -- Tom Holt, author of In Your Dreams
  • "Diverting..a zany tale of a slippery future shaped by bogus reality and prefab memories...Delightfully droll." -- Publishers Weekly
  • "Rarely does a first sf novel have as much energy and creativity as Scott's madcap, mischievously irreverent depiction of a definitely post-postmodern future. Consider this the opening salvo of one of the genre's most promising and original new voices in years." -- Booklist