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Paperback, 290 pages
Published: 1991
Edition: Headline Book Publishing (1992)
John W. Campbell Memorial for Best SF (1992) Winner
Conceived in the backseat of a car on the day that Buddy Holly died, Oliver Vale turns on the TV one day to find Buddy Holly on every channel, and soon he is on the run from a pursuing mob of religious fanatics. The noninterruptible live performance by Buddy Holly purports to originate somewhere in the vicinity of Jupiter. Oliver Vale--the apparent object of the broadcasts--finds himself drafted for a mission so secret that even he is not sure of its purpose.
Denton fills this supremely funny novel with warring space aliens disguised as humans, a robot dog, a psychopathic assassin, an overzealous psychologist and her jealous husband, a motorcycle gang, and a messianic televangelist--all to prove that rock 'n' roll never really died.