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Mae Day
On a dying planet, there's still one job left...
...stop the giant woman from eating everyone.
Lazulia is doomed. Half the population blasted off for outer space, and those left behind have no choice but to wait
until the sun bakes the planet. Only Sinar, a humble security guard, hasn't lost hope, and he prays every night that
his planet might be saved.
When Mae arrives instead, Sinar realizes that some prayers are better left unsaid.
...stop the giant woman from eating everyone.
Lazulia is doomed. Half the population blasted off for outer space, and those left behind have no choice but to wait
until the sun bakes the planet. Only Sinar, a humble security guard, hasn't lost hope, and he prays every night that
his planet might be saved.
When Mae arrives instead, Sinar realizes that some prayers are better left unsaid.
223 pages, Paperback
Published July 22, 2018
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March 20, 2019
It can be exceptionally hard to pull off funny, clever, sexy, and strange all within the same story, but that is precisely what Praedatorius does with Mae Day. Full of sci-fi excitement, end-of-the-world drama, big box satire, and giantess kink, it is like a literary roller-coaster that keeps scaling ever-higher hills and thrills.
Do not make the mistake of dismissing it as some silly bit of fluff, though - I was delighted by all the ways it challenges genre expectations and deliberately plays with expectations. For instance, when your protagonist is a socially anxious virgin, and your most interesting secondary characters are a group of giant prostitutes, you can be forgiven for expecting sex at every page turn, but you will have to be patient.
The satire of big box consumerism is incredibly funny, with ridiculous banter over mystery packages, overzealous anti-shoplifting surveillance, and insanely long hours an early highlight. Not quite as over-the-top, but still sharp, the satire of organized religion is just as funny, especially with the arrival of Mae seeming to fulfill a prophecy created to pacify the populace.
Mae herself is a fun character, an alien world-eater who grows in spurts, fed by gorging on groceries . . . garbage . . . furniture . . . buildings . . . and people. Even though we know she will be the death of everyone and everything, she is so charming, sp amusing, you giggle and cheer at every new development. Sinar, on the other hand, is almost infuriatingly naive about the women around him, and yet the only one who thinks the world is worth saving. He is the epitome of the tragic hero, struggling against a voracious giantess, a horny coworker, a half a captain (literally half - Mae took a bite) and a prostitute who sees in him a human connection.
There are erotic elements to Mae Day, and they are glorious - kinky and fun, dangerous in scope, but never rudely explicit. Perhaps my favorite scene involves an extraordinarily well-hung police officer and a growing prostitute giantess, turning the tables on an abusive encounter with some creative size humiliation that we know will not end well, and yet is still more emotionally charged than most erotic stories.
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Do not make the mistake of dismissing it as some silly bit of fluff, though - I was delighted by all the ways it challenges genre expectations and deliberately plays with expectations. For instance, when your protagonist is a socially anxious virgin, and your most interesting secondary characters are a group of giant prostitutes, you can be forgiven for expecting sex at every page turn, but you will have to be patient.
The satire of big box consumerism is incredibly funny, with ridiculous banter over mystery packages, overzealous anti-shoplifting surveillance, and insanely long hours an early highlight. Not quite as over-the-top, but still sharp, the satire of organized religion is just as funny, especially with the arrival of Mae seeming to fulfill a prophecy created to pacify the populace.
Mae herself is a fun character, an alien world-eater who grows in spurts, fed by gorging on groceries . . . garbage . . . furniture . . . buildings . . . and people. Even though we know she will be the death of everyone and everything, she is so charming, sp amusing, you giggle and cheer at every new development. Sinar, on the other hand, is almost infuriatingly naive about the women around him, and yet the only one who thinks the world is worth saving. He is the epitome of the tragic hero, struggling against a voracious giantess, a horny coworker, a half a captain (literally half - Mae took a bite) and a prostitute who sees in him a human connection.
There are erotic elements to Mae Day, and they are glorious - kinky and fun, dangerous in scope, but never rudely explicit. Perhaps my favorite scene involves an extraordinarily well-hung police officer and a growing prostitute giantess, turning the tables on an abusive encounter with some creative size humiliation that we know will not end well, and yet is still more emotionally charged than most erotic stories.
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April 27, 2019
"Remember when we were young... We shone like the sun..."
Mae Day is meant to be more of a humorous book than the previous published book by Praedatorius, Lisa and Mona. In some ways it brought me back to reading Douglas Adams and his style of dry and/or completely absurd comedy... Only in this case, we also are privy to many, many, many, many, MANY giant naked women. So while it is another fetish book, and once again a story by this author that focuses on, well, boobs, it's a far more ambitious and wildly imaginative work.
I flashed to some references or associations while reading this - the video game Katamari Damacy comes to mind due to the idea of rolling up - in this case, eating - everything in sight, starting with food in a grocery store, working up then to non-food (when Mae first eats and questions what an "inedible" object is, I laughed for five minutes straight), and eventually on to buildings and boats, with her goal to eat planets and a star; also, there's a bit of a horror element, even as the writer doesn't treat it quite so horrific (there are certainly those parts, but the tone is much more light and satirical, like a Takashi Miike kids movie or, more to the point, the original Gremlins); in the opening chapters before Mae shows up and we are introduced to Sinar, I thought of the deadpan sci-fi of Philip K Dick; and uh... I'm sure theres other associations like the Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (ive only seen a few scenes though). But I mention these scenes since, whatever the influences, this strikes me as an original work because of the voice and point of view and how so many seemingly crazy things come together.
It even has an underlying message, if one wants to look for it, regarding class and sex. While it's not as though boys and men can't grow large (in this book, the Mae of the title keeps growing larger the more she eats, but she can also touch others on the skin and make them grow), it's primarily women. As this is a dystopian story, and the world as these characters know it will collapse and be destroyed due to the sun, theres a hopelessness that pervades everyone more or less. What Mae does is set the women free, but it's also a kind of economic freedom to it. In Praedatorius's hands, this is a story of civilization coming apart and yet it doesn't have any despaire
to it. On the contrary, this is a joyous, surreal kind of disaster epic-in-a-day, and ones feelings about the beleaguered would be hero, Sinar, may wax and wane, and, actually, in the latter part of the book it becomes less funny and more terrifying. I mean, come on man, giant naked women everywhere!
I cant necessarily speak to whether this will hit ones fetish/kink spot as it's not really my thing anyway. But I think that also gives me another take on it: there is sexual fire going in here, but a lot more of it is about the social commentary, and, like a Godzilla/(
Kaijuu flick running on a million shots of estrogen, it's a wonderful kind of monster movie in prose. It doesnt mean to say there aren't a couple of nitpicks to have - there are a number of grammar issues throughout (though that's me as an English teacher talking) and I wondered if the subplot with Nusha and the prostitutes would come to anything, and it does, kind of, but gets a bit lost the more giant women start to come on the scene.
But all in all, this is a creative and often hysterical trip into a science fiction dystopia that creates a lot of chaos yet doesnt ever feel too chaotic - this in a story where, again I must stress, we're kinda halfway rooting for the planet to be eaten by a giant gal who just wants ketchup!
Mae Day is meant to be more of a humorous book than the previous published book by Praedatorius, Lisa and Mona. In some ways it brought me back to reading Douglas Adams and his style of dry and/or completely absurd comedy... Only in this case, we also are privy to many, many, many, many, MANY giant naked women. So while it is another fetish book, and once again a story by this author that focuses on, well, boobs, it's a far more ambitious and wildly imaginative work.
I flashed to some references or associations while reading this - the video game Katamari Damacy comes to mind due to the idea of rolling up - in this case, eating - everything in sight, starting with food in a grocery store, working up then to non-food (when Mae first eats and questions what an "inedible" object is, I laughed for five minutes straight), and eventually on to buildings and boats, with her goal to eat planets and a star; also, there's a bit of a horror element, even as the writer doesn't treat it quite so horrific (there are certainly those parts, but the tone is much more light and satirical, like a Takashi Miike kids movie or, more to the point, the original Gremlins); in the opening chapters before Mae shows up and we are introduced to Sinar, I thought of the deadpan sci-fi of Philip K Dick; and uh... I'm sure theres other associations like the Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (ive only seen a few scenes though). But I mention these scenes since, whatever the influences, this strikes me as an original work because of the voice and point of view and how so many seemingly crazy things come together.
It even has an underlying message, if one wants to look for it, regarding class and sex. While it's not as though boys and men can't grow large (in this book, the Mae of the title keeps growing larger the more she eats, but she can also touch others on the skin and make them grow), it's primarily women. As this is a dystopian story, and the world as these characters know it will collapse and be destroyed due to the sun, theres a hopelessness that pervades everyone more or less. What Mae does is set the women free, but it's also a kind of economic freedom to it. In Praedatorius's hands, this is a story of civilization coming apart and yet it doesn't have any despaire
to it. On the contrary, this is a joyous, surreal kind of disaster epic-in-a-day, and ones feelings about the beleaguered would be hero, Sinar, may wax and wane, and, actually, in the latter part of the book it becomes less funny and more terrifying. I mean, come on man, giant naked women everywhere!
I cant necessarily speak to whether this will hit ones fetish/kink spot as it's not really my thing anyway. But I think that also gives me another take on it: there is sexual fire going in here, but a lot more of it is about the social commentary, and, like a Godzilla/(
Kaijuu flick running on a million shots of estrogen, it's a wonderful kind of monster movie in prose. It doesnt mean to say there aren't a couple of nitpicks to have - there are a number of grammar issues throughout (though that's me as an English teacher talking) and I wondered if the subplot with Nusha and the prostitutes would come to anything, and it does, kind of, but gets a bit lost the more giant women start to come on the scene.
But all in all, this is a creative and often hysterical trip into a science fiction dystopia that creates a lot of chaos yet doesnt ever feel too chaotic - this in a story where, again I must stress, we're kinda halfway rooting for the planet to be eaten by a giant gal who just wants ketchup!
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