The Song of the Quarkbeast

The Song of the Quarkbeast
	First edition
Author	Jasper Fforde
Country	UK
Language	English
Series	Dragonslayer
Genre	Fantasy
Publisher	Hodder & Stoughton
Publication date	10 November 2011 (Hardback)
Media type	Print Hardback
Pages	304
ISBN	978-1-4447-0722-9
Preceded by	The Last Dragonslayer

The Song of the Quarkbeast is the second book in the Dragonslayer trilogy by Jasper Fforde. It is set in an alternate world in which magic is real, but has become weakened and is also being replaced by modern technology. The setting is almost like modern Britain, except that it is split into a number of small states.

Synopsis

16-year-old Jennifer Strange is still filling in for the missing manager of Kazam, an employment agency for magicians. The King orders a contest between the wizards of Kazam and their rivals iMagic, the losers to forcibly merge with the winning agency. Meantime a mysterious party is searching for a lost magic ring. Kazam's odds of winning decline as several misfortunes strike. Jennifer's efforts to find allies result in, among other things, discovery of a conspiracy.

gollark: If your neural network is public, people could probably do !!FUN!! stuff like trick it into flagging regular stuff as evil offensiveness by tweaking a few pixels.

gollark: But those tend to have weird failure modes.

gollark: I mean, the NN is.

gollark: That's not automated.

gollark: Since you can't really detect any "offensive" thing automatically. Which is probably fortunate, on the whole.

External links

Dragonslayer page at the official Jasper Fforde website

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