Saturday 4 January 2014

Archer's Goon

Hooray it's the weekend! Time for another Saturday Matinee Serial! This week it is Archer's Goon!



Archer's Goon was adapted from the novel by Diana Wynne Jones in 1992.

Howard Sykes comes home from school one day to find a strange man in his kitchen -- a goon (he won't give his real name). He explains that Archer has sent him to pick up two thousand words from Howard's father, and he wont leave until he gets them. 
It transpires that thirteen years ago Howard's father agreed to write two thousand words of nonsense quarterly and give them to Mountjoy, a town official. In return he was promised an exemption from city taxes. The Goon says that the latest two thousand didn't get to Archer. Quentin irritably writes a replacement set and gives them to the Goon, who goes away—but the next afternoon, he is back, as they were a repeat of what had been done previously, and the agreement specified that they must not be a copy or paraphrase of anything he had done before.
So begins a quest involving time travel, magic, wizards, spaceships and all manner of awesome!


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