{"product_id":"9781066755905","title":"The Universe vs Alan Contingency Planning Enacted - Peter Agambar (Paperback) 23-06-2026","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlan Powndsland believes most problems can be solved with the correct form, completed properly, filed carefully, and submitted before the deadline. The universe disagrees. After a flooded road, an unfortunate digital signature, and the sudden appearance of an interstellar bureaucrat, Alan and his old friend Sid are pulled into a reality far larger, stranger, and less organised than either of them expected. Ancient instruments are being rediscovered. Missing moons are causing historical difficulties. Dinosaurs may have suffered more extinction events than previously recorded. Entire departments exist solely to document the consequences of Alan touching things he was specifically instructed not to touch. And somewhere deep within the administrative machinery of existence, a contingency plan has just been enacted. Nobody remembers approving it. Nobody understands it. And unfortunately, Alan may be the only person capable of making the situation worse. The Universe vs Alan: Contingency Planning Enacted is an absurdist British science-fiction comedy about bureaucracy, friendship, causality, and the terrible danger of assuming someone else has checked the paperwork. Please retain this handbook for future reference. Failure to do so may result in reality behaving unexpectedly.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Ivybridge Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Peter Agambar \/ Fiction - Paperback \/ 23-06-2026","offer_id":57151107465596,"sku":"9781066755905","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0535\/2344\/8005\/files\/41s2lj0EuQL._SY445_SX342_ML2.jpg?v=1783529354","url":"https:\/\/www.ivybridgebookshop.com\/products\/9781066755905","provider":"The Ivybridge Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}