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"Billy Boyles is every man's toilet. His life is one of perpetual humilia-tion and loneliness. Thanks to an enemy bazooka in Viet Nam, Billy came home a eunuch. Now he is covered with gigantic boils. Hence, an untouchable subjected to every human abuse. But then something very strange happens. His boils begin singing to him. They promise to make his life better. He meets Rosy who also has boils, and she tells him to sing back to them and he will be pleasantly surprised. He does and he is! All thirteen of his boils hatch out into little Billy clones. These pint-size Barbie Dolls (actually Ken dolls) are more than anatomically correct, and determined to set the world right for Billy. Revenge? Payback? Compensation? All tiny little understatements that can't begin to de-scribe the savage, gory, and completely wacky carnage they set out to wreak for Billy.
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Frank Robinette, Resident Scholar
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Plot
Tone of book
- very upbeat
FANTASY or SCIENCE FICTION?
- fantasy story on current Earth
Inner Struggle
Yes
Plotlet:
- fighting a personal illness/handicap
- search for identity/new understanding
- coping with mental/magical powers
Lifeform altered?
Yes
Kind of alteration:
- Scientifically turned into another lifeform
Is this an adult or child's book?
- Adult or Young Adult Book
Clones
Yes
Cultural problems, alien culture
Yes
Culture clash-
- one human from different culture of other humans
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- unemployed
Age:
- 40's-50's
Has magical/special powers?
Yes
Magical/mental powers of main character:
- super strength
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Main Adversary
Identity:
- an entire race
Age:
- long-lived adults
Profession/status:
- small businessman
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- throughout most of the book.
Setting
Earth setting:
- 20th century
Takes place on Earth?
Yes
Style
Person?
- mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death?
- very explicit references to deaths and torture
scientific jargon? (SF only)
- some scientific explanation
Sex in book?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- descript of touching personal anatomy
- orgies
- actual description of sex
- descript. of private male anat.
- descript. of non-breast female anat.
How much dialogue?
- roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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