LARRY DOYLE (I Love You, Beth Cooper) / GO, MUTANTS!
It came to earth . . . and now its’ kids
go to high school.
The author of I Love You, Beth Cooper
returns with another hilarious novel, this time with heroes and villains
straight from classic sci-fi and teen movies of the ‘50s and ‘60s.
What if the movies that glowed from drive-in screens from the 50s and 60s weren’t fantasies but really happened? In Go, Mutants!, Larry Doyle has created a world populated with the monsters, aliens, and mutants of B-movie legend, with all the beach parties, dances, fist fights and hotrod races of classic teen dramas. An unforgettable era of pop culture is brought to life in an uproarious
mash-up filled with
Romance! Danger! Intergalactic Conspiracy! Molting!
Earth has survived alien invasions, attacks by hordes of atomic mutants and the
ravages of 
dinosaurs brought back to life. Now we’re in the blissful future.
The grass is always green, freshly mowed by famous robots. Carhops in jetpacks
deliver burgers and fries to your atomic coupe. And automatic sidewalkscan
take you anywhere: the Watch the Skies Drive-in, Crater Cove, and Manhattan
High,where everybody roots for the Mutants.
J!m, the son of the alien who nearly destroyed the planet, is a brooding
blue-skinned rebel with an enormous forehead and exceptionally oily skin. Along
with Johnny, a leather-jacketed radioactive ape, and Jelly, a gelatinous mass
passing as a fat kid, J!m navigates a scary adolescence in which he really is
as alienated as he feels, the world might actually be out to get him, and true
love is complicated by misunderstanding and incompatible parts. As harmless
school antics escalate into explosive events with tragic consequences, J!m
makes a discovery that
will alter the course of civilization, though it may help his dating life.
Larry Doyle, a former writer for The Simpsons, works in showbiz and writes funny things for The New Yorker. He is the author of I Love You, Beth Cooper, which won the 2008 Thurber Prize for American Humor and was made into a major motion picture.
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