Books by R.C. Sherriff
“The Hopkins Manuscript is a very prescient bit of sci fi from 1939. The premise is simple: the moon is going to crash into the earth. That’s a very serious situation, and the only reason this book is a comedy in most part is because of the narrator. He is a well-meaning amateur astronomer, who is more interested in raising prized chickens than in the end of the world as it’s approaching. It’s basically the apocalypse, as told by Alan Partridge.” Read more...
Andrew Hunter Murray, Comedians & Humorist
