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Larry Doyle, Mutant
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Wednesday July 14, 2010 (7:30pm)
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“J!m Anderson is a typical 16-year-old delinquent dealing with high school, greasy skin, and dating. But with a few added complications: he's a blue alien with a giant cranium, his mother is part cat, and his extra-terrestrial father once tried to destroy the planet. Welcome to the alternate reality of Go, Mutants! Writer Larry Doyle (The Simpsons, I Love You Beth Cooper) has created a retro-futuristic novel where the atomic beasts of '50s B-movies like The Blob and Day of the Triffids have integrated into society, interbred, and sent their kids to high school. At tonight's reading, ask Doyle about converting his putting-the-alien-in-alienation tale into a screenplay for Ron Howard.”
Joey Stevenson, Flavorpill
Larry Doyle, the author of I Love You, Beth Cooper, returns with another hilarious novel, this time with heroes and villains straight from classic sci-fi and teen movies of the '50s and '60s. In Go, Mutants!, Earth has survived alien invasions, attacks by hordes of atomic mutants, and the ravages of dinosaurs brought back to life. Now we're in the blissful future. J!m is a brooding blue-skinned rebel with an enormous forehead. Along with Johnny, a leather-jacketed radioactive ape, and Jelly, a gelatinous mass passing as a fat kid, J!m navigates a scary adolescence in which the world might actually be out to get him and true love is complicated by misunderstanding and incompatible parts.
