The Book of Ultimate Truths by Robert Rankin
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In "The Book of Ultimate Truths," Robert Rankin introduces us to Cornelius Murphy and his loyal sidekick Tuppe—a duo on a quest to find a tome that holds, as the title suggests, ultimate truths. But this isn't your standard epic quest. There's a doggedly determined villain, a universe-hopping monster, and other absurd elements that make this journey as unpredictable as a game of British bulldog.
As with all of Rankin’s works, the book gleefully contorts genre tropes to serve its whimsical ends. From arcane mysteries to slapstick comedy, the quest for ultimate truth turns out to be a hodgepodge of the ridiculous and the sublime. It's precisely the kind of genre-bending narrative that would draw nods of approval from SFcrowsnest regulars.