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The Benaroya Chronicles #3
Devil-May-Care
TOP 25 LGBT SCIENCE FICTION - TOP 100 LESBIAN SCIENCE FICTION AN OUTRAGEOUSLY EXTRATERRESTRIAL LOOK AT THE HUMAN CONDITION Now available in book form for the first time ever! When this sequel to Passing for Human and I, Vampire was written in the 1980s, it was rejected by all the major science fiction publishers who told Jody Scott it was “too far out” for commercial publication. "Jody Scott knows that science fiction reaches the parts other fiction cannot reach. Like Philip K. Dick, she uses science fiction to question the meaning of reality and the nature of humanity- but saying that doesn't even hint at what a wild, original and outrageously funny writer she is." -TimeOut Magazine "The greatest employment of science fiction in the service of satire. The best unknown SF writer." -Fantasy & Science Fiction Magazine Rysemian operatives are here to help us evolve. Or Else. But first they must defeat archfiend Scaulzo, worshiped as the Prince of Darkness across many galaxies, but can the devil ever really be tamed? Freewheeling cadet Benaroya has a plan- so audacious it might just succeed. Recruit Virginia Woolf’s lover, lesbian vampire Sterling O'Blivion; send her to the mothership for training and rehab by George Patton and Nancy Reagan. Detail Abe Lincoln and Douglas MacArthur to the 1950's to unravel the Gordian knot of human history, master the nuances of being a "respected male leader," survive Scaulzo's Agony Organ horrorshow that hypnotically invades their thoughts, and avoid going native. Tapdance America's child-sweetheart to superstardom as a Rysemian evangelist. ("'I come to you humans from across the void,' Shirley roared in pulpits everywhere— standing on a pile of books.”) Spring the ultimate, high-stakes trap for the devil; Benaroya the bait, Earth's fate in the balance. “Jody Scott is like a mad cabby who knows most of the streets in town and knows where the laughs are – get into her rig and she'll take you on a fast and furious spin through America's ideological terrain.” –Michael Shea "There’s a hilarious rage at the heart of Devill-May-Care that threatens to devour the plot, but doesn’t. Somehow Jody Scott has created a universe that tears across all the usual genre categories and makes brilliant, vicious fun of just about everything. It’s delicious craziness with some serious wisdom shining through." -Ernest Hogan, author High Aztech
334 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 1, 2016
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Jody Scott
8 books26 followers"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.
In Berkeley CA partnered with George Leite to publish the influential beat-generation Circle Magazine and to run daliels bookstore, and with whom she also co-authored the novel cure it with honey, winner of the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award, before settling in Seattle WA in the 1960's. There she lived the remainder of her life and produced the bulk of her oeuvre.
Scott died of heart failure in 2007.
Her papers are housed at the Eaton Archive at the University of California at Riverside, which is the largest speculative fiction archive in the U.S.
This page is managed by her literary executor and spouse.
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.
In Berkeley CA partnered with George Leite to publish the influential beat-generation Circle Magazine and to run daliels bookstore, and with whom she also co-authored the novel cure it with honey, winner of the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award, before settling in Seattle WA in the 1960's. There she lived the remainder of her life and produced the bulk of her oeuvre.
Scott died of heart failure in 2007.
Her papers are housed at the Eaton Archive at the University of California at Riverside, which is the largest speculative fiction archive in the U.S.
This page is managed by her literary executor and spouse.
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March 6, 2018
Sylvia Plath meets Douglas Adams in this rollicking sci-fi funhouse ride through a landscape straight out of Hieronymus Bosch.
The Rysemians are an aquatic race of alien “blubberfish” whose true form is so disgusting even they can’t stand its sight while in human form. After opening a “mousehole” into Earth’s backwater piece of the cosmos, they find humans have been manipulated by Scaulzo (the devil) into the absurd, self destructive, misogynist creatures we are; a danger to the rest of the universe the Rysemians cannot ignore. Rysemian operatives therefore take various human shapes to help us evolve to our true nature including George Patton, Nancy Reagan, Abe Lincoln, Douglas MacArthur, and Virginia Woolf.
After rigorous training and even more rigorous rehab from her addiction to blood, earthling vampire and lesbian main squeeze of Virginia Woolf, Sterling O’Blivion, sets out on her mission to the year 2123 where she must locate and bring back the latest incarnation of King Arthur, now a slave boy in a hellish dystopian future while his Guinevere resides 300 years in the past.
Meanwhile, Virginia Woolf, who is trying to make the devil quit his lowdown ways, is killed. The only replacement body available is Shirley Temple; a persona in which she really starts to kick butt.
Jody Scott takes readers on a mad romp through an absurd yet familiar universe equipped with its own brand of science and spirituality.
Jam-packed with strong women and strong writing, Devil May Care is particularly relevant in today’s “Me Too” environment, is filled with humor, insightful takes on human nature, politics, and life in these United States, and as an added bonus, explains just what did happen to Jimmy Hoffa.
A must read for humans and aliens alike.
The Rysemians are an aquatic race of alien “blubberfish” whose true form is so disgusting even they can’t stand its sight while in human form. After opening a “mousehole” into Earth’s backwater piece of the cosmos, they find humans have been manipulated by Scaulzo (the devil) into the absurd, self destructive, misogynist creatures we are; a danger to the rest of the universe the Rysemians cannot ignore. Rysemian operatives therefore take various human shapes to help us evolve to our true nature including George Patton, Nancy Reagan, Abe Lincoln, Douglas MacArthur, and Virginia Woolf.
After rigorous training and even more rigorous rehab from her addiction to blood, earthling vampire and lesbian main squeeze of Virginia Woolf, Sterling O’Blivion, sets out on her mission to the year 2123 where she must locate and bring back the latest incarnation of King Arthur, now a slave boy in a hellish dystopian future while his Guinevere resides 300 years in the past.
Meanwhile, Virginia Woolf, who is trying to make the devil quit his lowdown ways, is killed. The only replacement body available is Shirley Temple; a persona in which she really starts to kick butt.
Jody Scott takes readers on a mad romp through an absurd yet familiar universe equipped with its own brand of science and spirituality.
Jam-packed with strong women and strong writing, Devil May Care is particularly relevant in today’s “Me Too” environment, is filled with humor, insightful takes on human nature, politics, and life in these United States, and as an added bonus, explains just what did happen to Jimmy Hoffa.
A must read for humans and aliens alike.
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