A wry philosophical tale of intellectual and cultural rebellion describing Dave Hume’s arrival in a 21st Century London where the Enlightenment never happened.
The Hitchhiker's Guide meets Philosophy For Dummies, or Atlas Shrugged with more jokes and fewer pages.
Dave awakes in a version of London that veered off course some stage in the eighteenth century when his great grandfather - infamous Scottish philosopher, David Hume - fell out a fourth storey window three decades too early. As a result this is a London that never truly discovered the novel; that never separated church and state; and which controls British thought through rigorous censorship and religious propaganda.
For a guy trying to run a bookshop these are not insignificant challenges.
The book's goal is to render philosophy - from David Hume's important but flawed eighteenth century discoveries through to the contents of Ayn Rand's controversial Atlas Shrugged - approachable and entertaining.