Go, Mutants!
A Novel

I received Go, Mutants! by Larry Doyle as an advanced readers’ copy. Having never read anything by Larry Doyle before, but having heard his name quite often, I was so happy to get Go, Mutants! in the mail. On top of that, it has the theme of B-movies - sci-fi/horror specifically - of which I spent a......more

A pastiche of 50s sci-fi and timeless deadpan sarcasm. Style over story, but Oh, what style. There were times while reading I just burst out laughing. Clever without being too twee, it's all the good parts of of a Wes Anderson movie. Goes down easily and just as easily forgettable once you finish. Th......more

Reading the other reviews of Larry Doyle's follow up to I Love You, Beth Cooper got me thinking two things: 1. Why the hell aren't I getting free books from Good Reads? 2. Have these people never read sci-fi before? Many of them complain that the first 75 pages or so are slow going, that he's taking f......more

Like Doyle's previous novel, I LOVE YOU BETH COOPER, GO MUTANTS contains a mind-boggling number of jokes, several per page. So much of the humor is understated that I purposely had to slow down my reading to make sure I didn't miss anything. I'm a horror geek but not really a SF geek, so I'm sure th......more

The plot is a mashup of 1950s and 60s teen culture and classic science fiction/monster movies, but that's not really the point. In fact, the plot is kind of a mess, predictable in spots, jumbled in others. The opening exposition--which reveals a world which diverged from the historical timeline as w......more