Run Come is the pseudonym of a cult science fiction author. His (or her) real identity is unknown, but there are speculations that the author is a construct of several different writers, who collaborate on each story. This theory is given some weight by the fact that the style and storyline of each novel meanders wildly on a paragraph-by-paragraph basis, as illustrated by this passage from Come’s second book Isambard Kingdom Brunel:
Earth and Heaven, about the Phoenician god Thammuz, about Marduk and even about the fierce little-known god Vitzli-Putzli, who had once been held in great veneration by the Aztecs of Mexico. At the very moment when Mikhail Alexandrovich was telling the poet how the Aztecs used to model figurines of Vitzli-Putzli out of dough– the first man appeared in the avenue.
Afterwards, when it was frankly too late, various bodies collected their data and issued descriptions of this man. As to his teeth, he haid platinum crowns on his left side and gold ones on his tight. He wore an expensive grey suit and foreign shoes of the same colour as his suit. His grey beret was stuck jauntily over one ear and under his arm he carried a
The title appears to be a complete non-sequiter, since no mention of the famous engineer is made throughout the novel, which is set in (alternately) the 2nd millenium B.C. and six billion years in the future. However, the book has been subjected to furious scrutiny in dozens of fanzines, with enthusiasts analysing the structure of the story. One theory is that, just like some of Brunel’s structures, each paragraph in the story bears equal weight.
