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Thursday Next lives in an [[Alternate History]]. In her world, [[Time Travel]], cloning, and genetic engineering are commonplace; resurrected dodos are the household pet of choice. The obscenely powerful [[Mega Corp|Goliath Corporation,]] which nearly singlehandedly reconstructed England after [[World War Two|World War II,]] now runs the country as a virtual police state. And literature, particularly classic literature, is very, very, ''very'' [[Serious Business]]. Writers are revered with nearly spiritual devotion, controversial claims about books and authors can be criminal, and an entire police squad, the LiteraTecs, exist to keep the literary scene in order. Thursday works for just such a unit in Swindon, with her friend and colleague, the exceedingly polite Bowden Cable.
In an effort to rescue her [[Mad Scientist|mad inventor]] uncle Mycroft from international arch-criminal [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Acheron Hades,]] a [[Card-Carrying Villain|gleefully-evil]] genius with supernatural powers, Thursday discovers the
Such is the universe of [[Jasper Fforde|Jasper Fforde's]] meta-fictional masterpiece, the ''[[Thursday Next]]'' series. The author [[Lampshade Hanging|hangs a lampshade]] on everything and anything relating to classic literature, the tropes of police fiction and spy fiction, and even the relationship between a work of fiction and its audience. Heavy on wordplay and [[Hurricane of Puns|puns,]] the series deals with the tireless heroine's adventures balancing her work as an agent of Jurisfiction in the Great Library and LiteraTec in the outside world, to say nothing of her responsibilities as a wife and mother.
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