Gr 6-9 -Fourteen-year-old Jet Latter is not at all thrilled when her family and their Simulate Canine Deluxe, Otis, head to Ollywood, movie capital of their planet, where her oldest sister, Turquoise, will play Helenet's Third Damsel in Fall of Super Troy . Jet and Otis, who has recently missed his half-yearly service, are trying to escape the torture of the Ollywood scene when they meet Ben, who tells them about the strange world of the Subway. On their first trip down to the "Underworld," Jet and Otis are transported to Indigara, a world made up of bad actors, bad dialogue, and scenes from science-fiction pilots that were never made into series. While the premise is amusing, and seems to have potential for humor, the actors and dialogue from the B movies only make for a B book. The perspective jumps from Otis's "diskripts" to Jet's journal, to movielike scene descriptions, which results in a choppy read. Fans of Lee's earlier works will be disappointed, as will fans of futuristic science fiction or Hollywood stories.
Kelly VikstromCopyright 2006 Reed Business Information.
Indigara: Firebird Novella
"Lee continues to distinguish herself with her ability to bring flesh and blood to the worlds of the future."-Science Fiction and Fantasy Review
Jet and her robot dog, Otis, have been taken with Jet's two sisters-one of whom has a role in the latest Super-Movie-to their planet's film capital, Ollywood. Jet and Otis are soon catapulted into the unplumbed underworld that lurks below the studios and lots. Here lies the beautiful and sinister otherwhere of Indigara, which has spontaneously generated from the sets, costumes, models, and actual celluloid of rejected pilot fantasy and SF movies that never got made into series. Even while Jet and her dog try to survive the dangers and terrors below, their Indigaran mirror images have replaced them, and are running amok in the real world above...
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Jet and her robot dog, Otis, have been taken with Jet's two sisters-one of whom has a role in the latest Super-Movie-to their planet's film capital, Ollywood. Jet and Otis are soon catapulted into the unplumbed underworld that lurks below the studios and lots. Here lies the beautiful and sinister otherwhere of Indigara, which has spontaneously generated from the sets, costumes, models, and actual celluloid of rejected pilot fantasy and SF movies that never got made into series. Even while Jet and her dog try to survive the dangers and terrors below, their Indigaran mirror images have replaced them, and are running amok in the real world above...
Indigara: Firebird Novella
"Lee continues to distinguish herself with her ability to bring flesh and blood to the worlds of the future."-Science Fiction and Fantasy Review
Jet and her robot dog, Otis, have been taken with Jet's two sisters-one of whom has a role in the latest Super-Movie-to their planet's film capital, Ollywood. Jet and Otis are soon catapulted into the unplumbed underworld that lurks below the studios and lots. Here lies the beautiful and sinister otherwhere of Indigara, which has spontaneously generated from the sets, costumes, models, and actual celluloid of rejected pilot fantasy and SF movies that never got made into series. Even while Jet and her dog try to survive the dangers and terrors below, their Indigaran mirror images have replaced them, and are running amok in the real world above...
Jet and her robot dog, Otis, have been taken with Jet's two sisters-one of whom has a role in the latest Super-Movie-to their planet's film capital, Ollywood. Jet and Otis are soon catapulted into the unplumbed underworld that lurks below the studios and lots. Here lies the beautiful and sinister otherwhere of Indigara, which has spontaneously generated from the sets, costumes, models, and actual celluloid of rejected pilot fantasy and SF movies that never got made into series. Even while Jet and her dog try to survive the dangers and terrors below, their Indigaran mirror images have replaced them, and are running amok in the real world above...
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BN ID: | 2940171965686 |
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Publisher: | Penguin Random House |
Publication date: | 04/24/2018 |
Edition description: | Unabridged |
Age Range: | 10 - 13 Years |
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