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Only Uncle Wonder can save us from the death beam of... THE DIABOLICAL LOBSTERS FROM OUTER SPACE! New York City, . The golden age of television, when most programs were broadcast live. Young Kurt Jastrow, a full-time TV writer and occasional actor, is about to have a close encounter of the apocalyptic kind. Kurts most beloved character and alter ego is Uncle Wonder, an eccentric tinkerer whose pyrotechnically spectacular science experiments delight children across the nation. Uncle Wonder also has a more distant following the inhabitants of Planet Qualimosa. When a pair of his extraterrestrial fans arrives to present him with an award, Kurt is naturally pleaseduntil it develops that, come next Sunday morning, these same aliens intend to perpetrate a massacre.



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James Morrow

Born in 1947, James Morrow has been writing fiction ever since, as a seven-year-old living in the Philadelphia suburbs, he dictated "The Story of the Dog Family" to his mother, who dutifully typed it up and bound the pages with yarn. This three-page, six-chapter fantasy is still in the author's private archives. Upon reaching adulthood, Morrow produced nine novels of speculative fiction, including the critically acclaimed Godhead Trilogy. He has won the World Fantasy Award (for Only Begotten Daughter and Towing Jehovah) , the Nebula Award (for "Bible Stories for Adults, No. 17: The Deluge" and the novella City of Truth) , and the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award (for the novella Shambling Towards Hiroshima) . A full-time fiction writer, Morrow makes his home in State College, Pennsylvania, with his wife, his son, an enigmatic sheepdog, and a loopy beagle.



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