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Tequila Mockingbird
THEY WANTED TO TERRAFORM ... THE EARTH? collection of insanely funny short stories. favor ... answer is simple: fangbangers.
- GenresHumorScience Fiction
160 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2007
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Nick Pollotta
41 books26 followersNick Pollotta also writes as Nicholas Pollotta, Jack Hopkins, and house names James Axler and Don Pendleton.
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March 31, 2010
Nick Pollotta usually writes novels with a dollop of humor in the science fiction and horror genres, with some occasional side trips into more mainstream genres to pay the bills. This is the first collection of short stories of his I've read. The stories were surrounded by smaller snippets that could be stitched together to form a story of their own in which author Nick Pollotta hijacks a radio talk show to talk about and read aloud from his book.
I like his novels better. He seems to use short stories as a method for proving a point or making an argument ('I bet I can write a humorous story about conflict without including violence'), and the end result feels like reading someone's "to do" list as he makes each of his points.
He does a lot better when he's playing in someone else's sandbox and doesn't have to do any world-building of his own. By far the best stories in the collection were the ones based on role playing games (Bureau 13 from Tri-Tac Systems and Gamma World from TSR/Wizards of the Coast) and the outright parody of Robert B. Parker's Spenser novels, which was the only story that actually made me laugh.
There were a few good stories in here, but Pollotta has written books better than this one.
I like his novels better. He seems to use short stories as a method for proving a point or making an argument ('I bet I can write a humorous story about conflict without including violence'), and the end result feels like reading someone's "to do" list as he makes each of his points.
He does a lot better when he's playing in someone else's sandbox and doesn't have to do any world-building of his own. By far the best stories in the collection were the ones based on role playing games (Bureau 13 from Tri-Tac Systems and Gamma World from TSR/Wizards of the Coast) and the outright parody of Robert B. Parker's Spenser novels, which was the only story that actually made me laugh.
There were a few good stories in here, but Pollotta has written books better than this one.
December 15, 2009
A short story collection, cover I've linked to is not the original cover but a much later reprint under a different publisher as the original is fairly rare and not listed.
(Title is meant as a parody of 'To Kill a Mockingbird'.)
(Title is meant as a parody of 'To Kill a Mockingbird'.)
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