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  • SMB: Improbable is your first published novel, is it the first book you have actually written or do you have one or two aborted attempts hiding in drawers?

    An Interview with Adam Fawer « So Many Books 2005

  • Improbable is a good reading choice for a rainy or snowy weekend, a long trip, lounging on vacation or when you just want a solid story.

    Enjoyment Probability: High « So Many Books 2005

  • SMB: The actual look of Improbable is quite pleasing, I love the font and am a person who misses publishers printing information about the font in the back of the book.

    An Interview with Adam Fawer « So Many Books 2005

  • Nobody would accept Louis's suggestion of the name Improbable; and so there were four christenings, in order, in four different languages.

    Ringworld Niven, Larry, 1938- 1970

  • Nobody would accept Louis's suggestion of the name Improbable; and so there were four christenings, in order, in four different languages.

    Ringworld Niven, Larry, 1938- 1970

  • Improbable is a fast paced thriller that involves probability theory, quantum physics, Jungian psychology, mad scientists, a rogue CIA agent, epilepsy, schizophrenia and a mean game of Texas hold ‘em.

    An Interview with Adam Fawer « So Many Books 2005

  • Comic Jumper follows hopeless hero Captain Smiley who, faced with spiralling sales of his own comic book, invades a series of four more successful works, including a manga named Cutie Cutie Kid Cupids (filled with buxom teenage girls of course), and a Silver Age classic entitled The Improbable Paper Pals.

    E3 2010: Comic Jumper preview 2010

  • The relatively young director and designer, Phelim McDermott and Julian Crouch, are partners in an innovative production company in England called Improbable, and they seem to have a taste for the irreverent.

    The Truth Force at the Met Mendelsohn, Daniel 2008

  • A new book titled Improbable Cause, written by Les Filotas, one of the dissenting air-safety board members, promises on its cover to expose the "deceit and dissent in the investigation."

    TIME.com: Top Stories 2010

  • Drop Zone is set in an alternate universe known as Improbable Land, and watching it today, these remnants of a different era are a cheerful reminder that no one should take a frame of this seriously.

    Home Theater Forum 2010

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