Thursday, 3 June 2010

E K Victor Pearce, Who Was Adam (1987)


I have a natural interest in a title like this, of course; and the cover image, inside that splendidly weedily overgrown '?', gets me quite right in one respect: I'm very very pale. Now, the words inside have the appearance of a devout Biblical literalist attempting to reconcile archaeological and anthropological science with the book of Genesis. But the cover contains a clue that takes us in a different direction. The clue is: no question mark. Pearce is not asking, he is telling: Doctor Who is Adam. Which is to say, I am Matt Smith.

4 comments:

Some dude said...

Look again. The question mark is rather big.

Adam Roberts said...

Some dude: so my choices are, I can go with your reading, and give up my dream of being Matt Smith. Or I can stick with my original reading ...

Adam Roberts said...

Hmmm ....

韋于倫成 said...

能付出愛心就是福;能消除煩惱就是慧。........................................