As the series has shown readers, the real Thursday is quite skilled at plunging into BookWorld and catching characters who have tried to escape their stories.
In this Nextian universe, characters move between that world, the RealWorld, and the pages of the BookWorld, where they act out scenes from novels while villains try to sabotage the plots, among other genre-bending activities. Over that period, he’s written five wildly inventive “Thursday Next” novels that follow the literary adventures of Next, a female detective in an alternative universe where England is still fighting the Crimean War, the country is controlled by the unscrupulous multinational Goliath Corporation and Next herself is the dubious owner of a cloned dodo named Miss Pickwick.
It’s conceivable that, after a decade-long run as one of the more popular speculative fiction writers, even Jasper Fforde could be in need of a challenge.
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