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When Ed the Talking
Monkey moves out of his cage at the lab and finds
an apartment convenient to public transportation,
he has to face not only the stares of confused
humans but the snobbiness of the more advanced
experiments that follow him into the new social
scene.
In the space of a few days, he must decide if
his best interests lie with the humans, or with
a group of the enhanced apes who think the humans
are hogging all the best parking spaces at the
malls. Meanwhile, he falls in love with a new
young monkey at the lab, both of them unaware
that one of the researchers has brought her in
for an enhancement that is far beyond what any
of them can imagine . . . or want.
This hilarious novel sprawls across the social
landscape, trips over the moral ottoman, bangs
its knee on the political hutch, and knocks over
some cultural knickknacks on its way to a gargantuan
climax that reassembles the known world into a
map of life in all its forms, from the ridiculous
to the broken, from monkey to ape to human and
back again, from the selfish to the sacrificing,
from sea to shining, lonely, moonlit sea.
It also offers a plethora of helpful, practical
advice and how-to instructions on throwing inter-species
dinner parties, parenting do’s and don’ts,
conducting your own fiendish experiments, taunting
caged monsters, and effective last words after
the taunting turns out to be a mistake. (More...) |
| WALT
MAGUIRE is the author of a few plays, more
newspaper and magazine articles, and a lot
of that newfangled Web content. He’s
on the editorial board of Philadelphia
Stories Quarterly, which provides
him with some experience in reading his work
to coffee house crowds where it turns out
the most enthusiastic person in the room doesn’t
speak a word of English. (More...)
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Trying
to make sense out of life in the cultural wasteland
of ever-ascending technology and materialism,
a precocious college student writes letters to
the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski, whom he sees as
the most compelling counterpoint to the frenzy
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| RAY
CAVANAUGH is known to take astonishingly long
walks. He has a rather distinctive gait, because
his legs are quite uncoordinated. His nickname
is Noodles,
assigned
to him because a freakish wingspan and slim
physique make for arms that look like noodles.
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A
dystopian allegory of modern-day warfare: soldiers
of the future, resurrected ad infinitum,
serve a never-ending tour
of duty from which death is but a momentary
respite.
First
published in 1980, The Eternity Brigade
is not just a reprint: in an unprecedented in
mainstream publishing move, this edition is
a complete new edit and rewrite that turns a
sci-fi cult classic into a contemporary commentary.
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GOLDIN was born in Philadelphia, but escaped
to California when he was thirteen and has
lived there ever since. He has perpetrated
novels for three decades (but don’t
worry, you’ve never heard of any of
them). (More...) |
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The Lost World is an adventure/sci-fi
novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, first
serialized in 1912 by the Strand
magazine, with original illustrations
by Harry Roundtree and Maple White.
Set in the jungle of South America, in
an overlooked place where prehistoric
animals and humans survive, it is an early
precursor and an inspiration to a whole
genre, from Michael Crichton's Jurassic
Park to the TV show and movie The
Land of the Lost. But, above all,
it's a good old-fashioned adventure romp,
where dangers lurk at every turn and the
heroes overcome an obstacle a minute.
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It’s
a fun little story and not even remotely
romantic; it is set in a different place,
different time, and for different reasons.
There are no soft-focus longings or beautiful
sunsets; it is instead quite mordant, which
is fitting, as it was inspired by an observation
of Mark Twain’s.
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