Sprout Mask Replica by Robert Rankin
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Have you ever considered the dark underbelly of sprout farming? If not, "Sprout Mask Replica" will enlighten you. Jim Pooley and John Omally are back, and this time they are caught in a cultish web of vegetable worship and agricultural esoterica. The sprout, it turns out, is far more than a side dish at Christmas dinner.
While Rankin's depiction of sprout farming might not replace traditional agricultural textbooks, it would certainly make them more interesting. The book blends its implausible agricultural narrative with the absurd, supernatural, and ritualistic. Those scouring SFcrowsnest for tales that make you question the ordinary will find "Sprout Mask Replica" a sprouting success.