James Morrow Cat's Pajamas

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A rollicking and audacious collection of stories featuring Martian invaders, time travel, voodoo queens, giant Hollywood monsters, Dr. Moreaulike mad scientists, and moreInThe Cat's Pajamas, James Morrowcalled ';the most provocative satiric voice in science fiction' by theWashington Posttakes the reader on thirteen wild and gleeful rides, each exploring a demented, dystopian, or provisionally desirable world.A tyrannical church wields terrifying power over people's sex lives in the name of protecting ';the rights of the unconceived.' The dead, raised by Caribbean magic, are put to benevolent use in a New Jersey suburb. A racist Supreme Court justice gets his karmic comeuppance. Columbus ';discovers' a contemporary New York City. The island of Manhattan becomes a battlefield on which two alien races thrash out their philosophical disagreements. And in the remarkable title offering, a deranged doctor blesses his mutant creatures with ethical superiority, a simple matter of injecting them with a serum derived from the disembodied brain of the story's livingand understandably bewilderedprotagonist.