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Caffrey Quark is tired of killing exotic alien creatures for the fickle taste buds of his rich, powerful and obnoxious clientele. So he takes a jaunt through space-time and retires to 1960s East Village, NYC to live out his life as a struggling rock star.

But some weird stuff is going on around the Milky Way. Planets are selectively vanishing and the enigmatic and rather narcissistic (and bit of a pervert) android, Poe 33, has become separated from his charge- the Great L'Orange- a wise lump of orange, gelatinous star stuff. As his programming dictates, Poe 33 must track down the blood-line of his maker- Caffrey Quark!

Will Caffrey bow to synchronicity and realize that his new found rock & roll bliss will be short-lived? Will he become the reluctant hero? Can Poe 33, Yin- his beloved West Highland Terrier and his jealous but soft-hearted computer, Angie aid in his adventure to some of the Milky Ways more bizarre ports-of-call? Will Caffrey be able to save his band mates, the galaxy and music itself, from an insane megalomaniac and his Order Determined to Overthrow Reality (O.D.O.R.)?

Mike DiCerto, Resident Scholar

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Plot

Composition of Book
Descript. of chases or violence - 10%
planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 30%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 40%
Descript. of society, phenomena (tech), places - 20%

Tone of book - humorous or laughable
FANTASY or SCIENCE FICTION? - science fiction story
Political power play Yes
Political plotlets - saving govt/kingdom from external overthrow
Parody Yes
Is this an adult or child's book? - Adult or Young Adult Book

Main Character
Identity: - Male
Profession/status: - musician
Age: - 20's-30's
Eccentric: Yes
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events? Yes
How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - average physique

Main Adversary
Identity: - An "It".
Age: - long-lived adults
Profession/status: - bureaucrat
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - an average amount
How sensitive is this character? - mean, arrogant
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Very much smarter than other characters
Physique - healthy but a geeky weakling

Setting
Terrain - Jungle - Desert - Forests - Space, need spacesuit
Spaceship setting: - futuristic human freighter/transport
A substantial portion of this book takes place on a non-Earth planetary body: - humans in a futuristic society - inhabited by friendly aliens - neutral aliens - very controlled society
Takes place on Earth? Yes
Planet outside solar system? Yes
Takes place in spaceship? Yes

Style
Person? - mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death? - moderately detailed references to deaths
scientific jargon? (SF only) - some scientific explanation
Sex in book? Yes
What kind of sex: - descript of kissing - weird alien sex
How much dialogue? - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog

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