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The Benaroya Chronicles
The Benaroya Chronicles are an outrageously extraterrestrial look at the human condition.
When a team of alien anthropologists comes to Earth in replicated bodies, attempting to pass for human based on historical documents, old movies and pop culture, there ensues madcap action and a gleeful skewering of everything (we think) it means to be human.
When a team of alien anthropologists comes to Earth in replicated bodies, attempting to pass for human based on historical documents, old movies and pop culture, there ensues madcap action and a gleeful skewering of everything (we think) it means to be human.
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Rysemians are here to help us evolve. Or Else. 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:
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Can a seven hundred year old Transylvanian find true love with a revolutionary Rysemian fish-woman? Intro by Ted Sturgeon After seven hundred years, Glamorous vampire Sterling O’Blivion has begun to think the joy is going out of life. Then she meets Virginia Woolf in the ladies’ room of a dance studio in Chicago. But Woolf is really Benaroya, a dolphin-like alien anthropologist here to learn all there is to know about humanity and to fight the good fight against the evil, slave-trading Sajorians. Sterling falls madly in love with Benaroya. It’s just the sort of romp an aging vampire needs—but first, to defeat the Sajorians, they have to sell millions of Famous Men’s Sperm Kits to every woman on Earth. |
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When a dolphin-like alien comes to Earth disguised in a female human body, it sets the stage for a wild feminist romp that out stranges Stranger in a Strange Land. Intro by Barry Malzberg Introducing Benaroya, a well-meaning hedonist from Interstellar Station 8, who visits Earth, as Emma Peel, Virginia Woolf, Brenda Starr. Her mission: to sow wild oats, save Earth from alien invasion, sort out the human race and generally have a good time. With an all-star cast including Abraham Lincoln, Heidi’s Grandfather, General George S. Patton, The Prince of Darkness, The Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and several hundred Richard Nixons. |
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The DAW BOOKS Cover from 1977, cover art by Bob Pepper "A riproaringly magnificent time. Passing For Human is quite unlike anything anyone else has ever done." –Neil Gaiman |
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Rogaway was a psychologist At San Quentin prison. Manny Chavez, a Pachuco kid wanted news of his paroled brother Juan, wanted it enough he was willing to go to a "brain screw" to get it. Co-authored with George Leite under the name Thurston Scott, Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award |
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