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The Last Superhero

出版	Independently Published, 2018-12
主題	Fiction / Science Fiction / General
ISBN	17903441749781790344178
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=RmyPvwEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Being a superhero is so much about actually having any superpowers, more about the desire to save people, even if those people are a generation of foul-mouthed, unappreciative, work-shy, yobs. Raven (Dirk Steel) is the very man to do this, aided by his long-suffering wife Dannii, his black sheep daughter Saphyr who has brought shame on the Steel clan by becoming middle class, and her daughter Portia who is somewhat a genius at maths. Raven fights supervillains wherever he finds them, which is mostly around South East London pubs and housing estates, be it gangs of Post-Modernist terrorists in Post Offices bent on world melancholy, Existentialists in bunkers by the docks building doomsday machines or mad scientists that uncannily resemble Richard Dawkins. Meanwhile, Prime Minister of Great Britain, Antonia Widdicome, the slimiest, most self-serving, backstabbing and incompetent Prime Minister the country has ever had, realises a humongous great asteroid will crash into Earth next week, around tea time, on election day. But this is far from Earth's biggest problem as a group of ruthless Situationist terrorists have just released a virus into the world's computers that will make everyone realise the futility of existence and the pointlessness of their lives, unless they go shopping, and a huge temporal wave from the past is gradually returning the Earth back to the Jurassic. She now has the unenviable task saving her own skin from these catastrophes and fixing the General Election at the same time. To combat the forthcoming disasters the Governments of America, Russia, North Korea and New Zealand spring to immediate action, however God, vodka, Kim Il Jong's corpse and Peter Jackson quickly prove to be less than adequate solutions to Armageddon, so all eyes turn to Britain and namely one man to save the world, Raven. Despite being 70 years old, not actually having any superpowers or even an O level in science and having just been mugged by a gang of 12-year-old girls who stole his bus pass so is having a few mobility problems, Raven agrees to save the world...... Can Raven overt a global financial meltdown, stop a temporal wave, fight giant dino-monsters, deflect a humongous asteroid, avoid the bus ticket inspectors and still find time to vote for UKIP at the General Election? And if things are not bad enough already, the last two surviving members of the Communist Party of Great Britain are planning a Gulag in Berkshire. They have a less than chance meeting with an American evangelical snake oil salesman and set up a rival superhero franchise of their own. The most dangerous woman in Britain has escaped from her padded cell and is on a mission from God............ And watching all this from space are a team of crack anthropologists from the planet Erra who are studying Earth's most significant cultural achievement, Reality TV, and the last thing they want is their ship to malfunction and crash into the planet at this precise moment.Unbeknown to each, the paths of the protagonists are on collision course and the actions they do have repercussions which by some twist of fate may just give Raven the opportunity to save the world.