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Three Dummies: Being a True and Faithful Account of a Most Fantastic Voyage

by Barding Dahl

122 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #06-2141; ISBN 1-4251-0384-7; US$12.75, C$14.66, EUR9.94, £6.59

A trio of aliens survive a crash on the mountainside of a retired encyclopedia salesman, are fitted with false stomachs and talking devices so they can spout a series of platitudes, eventually winning the state election for Governor.

About the Book

A trio of aliens from Planet Brud survive a crash on the mountainside of a retired encyclopedia salesman, Proctor John. He discovers he can talk to them by a kind of mental imaging, and sustains their ionic balance by mineral baths. Enter Hummon Madvig, a rascally ex-friend of Proctor's, who quickly sees commercial possibilities in the visitors. In Las Vegas, Hummon saves the "bacon" of Ed Bagge, chairman of the "Demopublican" party in Fresno, who is looking for a darkhorse candidate for governor of California. Hummon wrangles an invitation for "Solon Brud" to address the next banquet of the "Ancient and Loyal Order of the Ox", the Fresno base of the Demopublicans. "Solon," as well as "daughter Eve" and "son Adam" are fitted with false stomachs and talking devices so they can spout a series of platitudes that win the hearts of the Oxen. Enter Lilah Flinders, Proctor's deranged ex-wife, who is out on pass from the loony bin by her lascivious doctor. And enter Mr. Lynx, a power broker, who helps Solon win the governorship, and even aspires to having a president totally in his control. Hummon makes with a bundle of state funds, and Proctor is sentenced to thirty years in state prison. Needless to say, the plot thickens from there.

About the Author

Imagine trying to change the world in ten years as a social worker and narcotics officer. Then more years in little theater, literary magazines, and social centers for the politically-active left in Los Angeles. And more years rescuing battered ghetto property for fun, profit, and community service. Still later, imagine Dahl pensioned off to a remodeled sugarcane warehouse in central Mexico, fighting weeds and pitiless ants, who have had four million years to get ready. He writes to pass on the only thing he knows for sure, that art offers the best chance to catch a soul. Publications in Esquire Magazine, various literary magazines, a novel translated and published in Germany, and two self-published novels.

Also by this author:

Novels:
RED JAMS OF HOPE
MASK OF DARKNESS
PAT'S WHORES
MARCHING TO ZARAGOZA

Plays:
SEWERS HAVE NO WINDOWS
THE RINGING OF IRON
HILL 33

Film script:
THE BREEDING OF ROBBY