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The WURST CONTACT Trilogy:
A pastiche of the Space Trilogy of C.S. Lewis, also drawing inspiration from the stories of Robert Anson Heinlein (a supporting character) and Robert Anton Wilson, as well as the music of the Grateful Dead. It takes place in an alternate 1970s, one in which World War II was shorter and less bloody—thanks to an American naval aviator, Admiral Erwin Rommel (who starred in Sourdough Jackson’s previous novel Torpedo Junction).
It is 1972. Toccata and Feud begins after Into the Noisy Planet’s public contact between the Olympians (the Terran Cultural Collection Expedition) and the people of Earth, which was not the ho-hum diplomatic conference that was planned. Therefore, the Olympians’ “parole officer” wants Dyanne McDonald, the key mediator, pulled from the scene.
Dyanne has other ideas. A concert-grade pianist, she joins the Warlocks, her time-track’s avatar of the Grateful Dead, to go to Europe on a madcap tour. Coming along for the ride are Anson McDonald, now retired from the Navy, and his wife Rosamund—and old Erwin Rommel, a master fiddler, catches the bus at the last minute.
Following the Europe 72 tour is Inanna, who had masterminded the attempt at contact. She is tasked with bringing Dyanne to Olympus, the Expedition’s HQ, and she dares not pull a simple abduction—Dyanne can be deadly dangerous when crossed. How deadly, neither she nor the gods know.
Also with the tour is Electra, Dyanne’s maid, a servant of the Shadow.
And that “parole officer” just won’t quit.
What a long, strange trip it shall be!
Cover art by Bon Callahan
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