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Jody Scott

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"What a wild, original and outrageously funny writer she is." -TimeOut

Jody Scott (Jan 13, 1923- Dec 24, 2007 ) was an award-winning American writer whose novels garnered extensive critical and peer acclaim though most of her works remained unpublished during her lifetime. Scott was a satirist who employed speculative and mainstream fiction to critique society and question the nature of reality. Her scifi series The Benaroya Chronicles (consisting of the novels Passing for Human, I, Vampire and Devil-May-Care) became cult classics of feminist satire in the 1980's and were widely praised for their hilarity and originality.

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	Now We Are Sick: An Anthology of Nasty Verse by Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Stephen Jones (Editor), John M. Ford (Contributor) 3.69 avg rating — 406 ratings — published 1991 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Passing for Human (The Benaroya Chronicles #1) 3.36 avg rating — 129 ratings — published 1977 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I, Vampire (The Benaroya Chronicles #2) 3.33 avg rating — 121 ratings — published 1977 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tales by Moonlight by Jessica Amanda Salmonson (Editor & Foreword), Stephen King (Goodreads Author) (Introduction), Janet Fox (Contributor) 3.50 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 1983 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dopo la vita by Pamela Sargent (Goodreads Author) (editor), Ian Watson (editor), Massimo Patti (translator) 3.74 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1986	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, August 1965 (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, #171) by Joseph W. Ferman (Editor), William Tenn (Contributor), Robert Rohrer (Contributor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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The Benaroya Chronicles (3 books)
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Leaves of Grass

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The Hitchhiker's Trilogy (Hitchhiker's Guide, #1-5)

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“How do you explain a zen parable, how explain a mind-bendingly unconventional but logistically correct view of 'reality' in a story? I just try everything I can think up and sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't”
― Jody Scott

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“A prime test for madness and paranoia is called ‘insurance.’ If a species has ‘insurance,’ it is patently doomed. Only a toylike, salivating, pent-up bunch of gruntlings could conceive of such a sociopathic type of gambling.”
― Jody Scott, I, Vampire

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