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Tom Holt

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Just when you’ve squared up to the solemn realisation that life is a bitch, it turns round and does something nice, just to confuse you. - Emily Spitzer, The Better Mousetrap


— Tom Holt


#life

Not only had he lost the only girl he'd ever loved, he'd lost her in duplicate, like some heartbroken but highly efficient civil servant.


— Tom Holt


#humor

After all, what else is scientific enquiry of any sort other than a controlled version of banging one's head against the universe until something gives?


— Tom Holt


#science #science

Mostly I sit at home in the evenings watching the box and hoping that one day I'll evolve into plankton.


— Tom Holt


#office #tired #work #life

Love is an optical illusion that makes you believe the object of your affection is the most beautiful person in the world.


— Tom Holt


#illusion #love #beauty

When you're about to die, your whole life's supposed to flash before your eyes. When you fall in true love, on the other hand, what you see in the twinkling of an eye is your entire future.


— Tom Holt


#love #life

Luck, like a Russian car, generally only works if you push it.


— Tom Holt


#generally #like #luck #only #push

New technology is useful, but it's inefficient and ugly; it knows it'll be obsolete by lunchtime tomorrow, so it has no incentive to be anything else.


— Tom Holt


#else #incentive #inefficient #knows #lunchtime

American-style iced tea is the perfect drink for a hot, sunny day. It's never really caught on in the UK, probably because the last time we had a hot, sunny day was back in 1957.


— Tom Holt


#back #because #caught #day #drink

The best definition of an immortal is someone who hasn't died yet.


— Tom Holt


#definition #died #hasn #immortal #someone






About Tom Holt






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Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine 45: 77–100. Bibliography

(The list that follows is complete according to the list of books in 'Life Liberty and the Pursuit of Sausages publiTom Holtd 2012)


Novels


Humorous fantasy
Expecting Someone Taller (1987) based on the mythology of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen. Wish You Were Here (1998) in which a lake spirit grants four people their heart's desire whether they like it or not.

He has also produced a number of "straight" historical novels writing as Thomas Holt. Holt's works include mythopoeic novels which parody or take as their theme various aspects of mythology history or literature and develop them in new and often humorous ways.

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