The Cat's Pajamas: And Other Stories

By: James Morrow

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Synopsis: A rollicking and audacious collection of stories featuring Martian invaders, time travel, voodoo queens, giant Hollywood monsters, Dr. Moreau–like mad scientists, and moreIn The Cat&’s Pajamas, James Morrow—called &“the most provocative satiric voice in science fiction&” by the Washington Post—takes 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 living—and understandably bewildered—protagonist.