Award-winning satirist and sci-fi writer Steve Aylett explores our professed desire and hidden revulsion towards originality. "Force-fed with ideas until its liver explodes... this is a sizzling and hilarious manifesto where its author means every blazing word, and which makes a case for the caged-animal repetitive behaviour of our culture... Heart of the Original should be tattooed on the backs of all the limp re-imaginers currently crowding our TV screens, our multiplexes and our surviving bookshops. Probably the most ...
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Award-winning satirist and sci-fi writer Steve Aylett explores our professed desire and hidden revulsion towards originality. "Force-fed with ideas until its liver explodes... this is a sizzling and hilarious manifesto where its author means every blazing word, and which makes a case for the caged-animal repetitive behaviour of our culture... Heart of the Original should be tattooed on the backs of all the limp re-imaginers currently crowding our TV screens, our multiplexes and our surviving bookshops. Probably the most astonishing thing that you will read during this otherwise lacklustre incarnation." --Alan Moore - For fans of Alan Moore, Charlie Booker, Dave Gorman and Richard Aoyade, as well as readers of Randall Munroe ( What If?) , Dan Ariely ( Predictably Irrational) , or Andrew Keen ( The Internet Is Not The Answer ).
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