Category: Friday Fiction
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Friday Fiction: Cover Art Creeps
Against That Day Simons 1996 I have a real problem with this cover. Is it just me or do those look like plastic disembodied heads on the cover? I also think that little girl head is creepy and I think looking at this cover I will not be able to…
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The Great Computer Dating Caper
The Great Computer Dating Caper Bethancourt 1984 Eddie and Jody need to get some cash together so Eddie’s dad can pursue development of his invention. So the boys create a dating service that is geared to the fat, lonely and shy girls. (Jody calls them “dogs”.) The boys themselves are…
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Friday Fiction: White Squaw
White Squaw: Hot Pursuit Hunter 1989 Submitter: This is not a library book, but someone put it in the book drop. wow. Is this a series? Are there White Squaw books 1-17? Wasn’t 1989 a little late for this kind of racism? Thanks for the donation, kind library patron, but I think this…
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Friday Fiction: Rise of the Cat Overlords
Breed to Come Norton 1972 Who isn’t going to pick up a book with a cat dressed up with a hat on the cover? If it is also an Andre Norton title, then double bonus! This particular title, set in the future, examines the aftermath of a planetary disaster involving a…
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Friday Fiction – The Whole Nine Yards
The Whole Nine Yards Malmgren 1986 Submitter: This was in my vocational-technical high school library collection. Ugh; teenagers have just so moved on from here – but maybe adults haven’t? I say this because today’s teens have moved on from the obviously dated cover image and title, combined with the book-jacket blurb.…
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Trekker Friday Fiction
Star Trek: The Truth Machine Cerf 1977 I found this while browsing a collection looking for something for a patron, and just got so excited. (I think the kid I was helping thought I was having some kind of “episode.”) I had to get my hands on this book! I…
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