Go Mutants



"It came to Earth... and now its spawn goes to high school!"

Go, Mutants! is the second novel from Larry Doyle, author of the critically acclaimed I Love You, Beth Cooper. It's a science-fiction story set in The Seventies of an Alternate Universe, where the creatures of B-Movie legend walk the streets along with ordinary humans. The story centers on J!m Anderson--teenage son of the late Andi Ra, an evil alien that once tried to conquer the human race--as he struggles through high school and life in an alien-unfriendly society. Rounding out the cast of creatures are J!m's friends, a radioactive biker ape named Johnny Love, a gelatinous blob posing as a fat kid named Jelly, and Marie Rand, an Ordinary High School Student--and the love of J!m's life.

Apparently, it's being optioned for film. The author says he's writing the screenplay for Ron Howard, but he's likely joking about that.

Contains examples of the following tropes:
"The robognomes let her pass, for it was not time for her to become her Courtesan Queen."
 * Affectionate Parody: Of cheesy 1950's B-movies.
 * AI Is a Crapshoot: Inverted, ENIAC becomes sentient, but decides not to tell anybody. When it does try to warn humanity of disaster, it gets shut off.
 * Aliens Speaking English: Andi Ra' learned English by watching the BBC. As a result, his way of speaking is very British, accent and all.
 * Aliens Steal Cattle:
 * Alternate History: The entire story is set in an Alternate Universe where in addition to B movie monsters running wild, many things are very different including...
 * Nixon beat Kennedy in the famous presidential campaign, though he was later assassinated by none other than John Glenn.
 * Kennedy, on the other hand, became fat, renounced Catholicism and later decided to attempt another run for the presidency, emphatically denying he had any carnal relationship with his running mate Norma Baker, who is a space cow.
 * Ronald Reagan is also in the presidential race, though his chances have been hurt severely upon the public discovery that his wife Nancy is really Si-Tchun of the Fulong, a race dedicated to the eradication of men.
 * Albert Einstein, while still a Nobel Prize winning scientist, is ridiculed as a crank and a traitor for having befriended J!m's father.
 * Elvis and his brother survived to the present day, and continue to sing as a duet.
 * Stanley Lieber never went into writing comics, and is instead a philosopher-poet.
 * Ambiguously Gay: Tubesteak. He seems to have a total thing for Russ and takes way too much pleasure in pantsing J!m.
 * Anything That Moves: The entire Venusian Succubix race
 * Bigger Is Better in Bed: Apparently a lot of girls thought that J!m was very well endowed.
 * Bizarre Alien Biology: J!m, ever so much.
 * Bizarre Alien Reproduction: J!m's species apparently can mate (after all, where do you think he came from?) despite their lack of external genitalia.
 * Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: The series gets a lot of its humor from describing in-universe mundane circumstances that would be very odd to us. For example after a description of Marie's lawn, including her lawn gnomes...

"The government was not in the business of keeping files on all its citizens; it was more of a hobby, really."
 * The Cameo: Plenty of famous B-Movie monsters, from Godzilla and King Ghidorah to Gort.
 * Not to mention Them, The Blob, The Thing, and the Fifty Foot Woman, who left her husband to date Godzilla.
 * Heck, this even applies to the main characters, who are basically the kids of said Fifty Foot Woman, the Son Of Kong, and the son of The Blob, among some humans and other alien species.
 * Catgirl: J!m's mother, Miw.
 * Chekhov's Gun: Quite a few of them, but most notably
 * Expy: J!m may remind one a bit of another alien living on our world, while Andi Ra' bears quite a resemblance to Klaatu.
 * Though this is definitely not intentional, J!m's species bears a strange resemblance to the main character in the movie Megamind.
 * ET Gave Us Wi Fi: Inverted, its humanity's development of nuclear weapons that brings us to the attention of other species at first. Later played straight when
 * Fantastic Racism: Due to interactions with aliens, mutants, monsters, and robots in the past, humankind has become quite xenophobic in this timeline. Despite it being in the seventies, there doesn't seem to be any Civil Rights issues present. Perhaps white and black really did team up on green in this timeline.
 * Friend to All Living Things: Marie sort of fits this trope, as she is pretty much the only human to be nice to everyone, wether they are alien, mutant, robot, or even Russ.
 * Fun with Acronyms: The Alien Security Service. Think about it.
 * Getting Crap Past the Radar:
 * One alien hooker is named Fuglii.
 * After being knocked down in the surf Rusty exclaims "I am so wet"!
 * Girl Next Door: Marie and to some extent Rusty.
 * Government Conspiracy:
 * Half-Human Hybrid:
 * Heinz Hybrid: J!m, half Leonian, half Regulan.
 * Helping Hands
 * Heterosexual Life Partners: J!m and Johnny. Russ and Tubesteak.
 * Historical In-Joke: The House Un-American Activities Committee was really formed to root out aliens in Hollywood.
 * Horny Devils: The entire Venusian Succubix race, including
 * Hot Mom: Miw, much to her son's chagrin. As J!m himself says, no boy wants a sexy mother.
 * Intelligent Gerbil: Miw's species, which are intelligent cats, Cowgirls from Alpha Tauri, and an intelligent chicken
 * Mad Scientist's Beautiful Daughter: Marie to Dr. Rand.
 * Meganekko: J!m's mom Miw, in the past.
 * Mismatched Eyes: Marie; she has one blue eye, one green eye.
 * My Brain Is Big: J!m's entire species.
 * My Sensors Indicate You Want to Tap That: The PLEX can determine if someone is menstruating or not.
 * Nigh Invulnerability:
 * No Except Yes: On the government's possible abuse of the PLEX system
 * My Sensors Indicate You Want to Tap That: The PLEX can determine if someone is menstruating or not.
 * Nigh Invulnerability:
 * No Except Yes: On the government's possible abuse of the PLEX system
 * No Except Yes: On the government's possible abuse of the PLEX system

"This book is a work of fiction. The public figures, historical events, and popular entertainments referred to in the text are from a different universe, one with no libel or copyright laws."
 * No Celebrities Were Harmed: J!m Anderson, on the cover, looks suspiciously like an alien James Dean.
 * Read Sheriff Furry's dialogue and try not to think of Sarah Palin.
 * Not So Harmless:
 * One of the Boys: Rusty seems to only have male friends, but it seems like she also wants to date all of them.
 * Our Zombies Are Different: Essentially, they are created when a Regulan
 * : Russ comes into the She bar to make love to a hot Venusian Succubix.
 * Planet Eris: Another rare example in Literature, to the point where this could be considered the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen for B-monster movies.
 * Power Perversion Potential: Almost immediately after learning that what she thought was a birth control was actually a suppresion pill, and learning the dire effects if she ever goes off it, Sandra Jane immediately wants to try experimenting with the dosage to see if she can make her breasts grow and everything else stay the same.
 * Purple Prose: The book suffers quite a bit from this at the beginning, but clears up admirably after the first three or four chapters.
 * Raygun Gothic: Affectionately parodied.
 * Shout-Out: Tons, mostly to literature and culture of the time
 * It is mentioned that paper burns at 451 degrees Fahrenheit.
 * They Walk Among Us
 * This Is a Work of Fiction:
 * They Walk Among Us
 * This Is a Work of Fiction:


 * Tiny Guy, Huge Girl: Sandra Jane's parents are essentially the incredible shrinking man and the fifty-foot woman.
 * Understatement: Having learned English from watching the BBC, Andi Ra' has also gained a very British sense of humor.