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$10.00, 155 pgs
DC Larson
143 Dawson St
Waterloo, Iowa 50703
ALL THE FANTASTIC ADVENTURE DARING OF VINTAGE MOVIE MATINEE SERIAL HERO COMMANDO CODY! ALL THE OUT-OF-THIS-WORLD ACTION OF 1950S TELEVISION CULT CLASSICS FLASH GORDON AND CAPTAIN VIDEO!
MAKE WAY FOR A NEW RETRO SCIENCE FICTION THRILL-TALE THAT WILL HAVE YOU MARVELING AT ITS MELODRAMA, LAUGHING AT ITS LIGHTER MOMENTS, AND IN THE PAGE -TURNING GRIP OF BEYOND THE STARS FREE-FOR-ALL MANIA!
SHAKE RATTLE & ROCKET!
by DC Larson
What happens when a two-fisted Earth scientist, a brainy glamour-girl robot, and a curve-crazy kid saucer jockey BLAST OFF INTO OUTER SPACE?
PLENTY, BROTHER! PLENTY!
Journey with Captain Eddie Atomic, Kioko, and Spunky as they pilot the X-9 saucer-rocket on a rip-roaring astral course, battling alien dangers, facing off against a flying saucer hot-rodding teenage gang, and crushing an intergalactic takeover plot that imperils Earth, itself!
ADVANCE PRAISE FOR SHAKE RATTLE & ROCKET!
"This would be a very good movie serial, like in the
40s!"
- actor/writer/director Conrad Brooks, Ed Wood's Plan
9 From Outer Space
"If they make it into a film, I want to be the robot!"
- Cult film star Tura Satana: Astro-Zombies; Faster,
Pussycat, Kill, Kill; The Haunted World of El
Superbeasto
"After two paragraphs i was hooked. When they make that
movie, I want to do the soundtrack!"
- guitarist/singer Barry Ryan, Rockats/solo artist
"As a dedicated reader of Horror Monsters Magazine and
Gene Vincent's 'Be-Bop-A-Lula' being the first record I
ever bought - trust me, DC Larson understands the humor
and the Rock'n'Roll that goes along with the whole 1950s
outer space/sci fi world...Little green men,
indeed...Very cool stuff!"
- singer/guitarist Dig Wayne, Buzz and the Flyers,
JoBoxers, Dig Wayne & the Chisellers's 'Shack Rouser'
"A space age, rock 'n' roll fantasy which brought me
back to my childhood days in the 1950s. But it takes
place decades from now! (How weird is that?) It's
great fun and exciting. So give it a read already!"
- writer/underground cartoonist John Holmstrom, NYC's
1970s PUNK magazine
"Has everything a B-movie fan would want in a novel:
space zombies, hot rod saucers and a sexy female robot."
- writer/director Eric Callero, Flying Saucers
Rock'n'Roll
"DC's retro-based vision of the future is much cooler
and more fun than the real thing will ever be!"
- singer/guitarist Jimmy Tremor, The Tremors
"More fun than a zombie-filled '57 Chevy racing from
the graveyard with a rockabilly soundtrack!"
- singer/guitarist Wolfman Nick Falcon, The Young
Werewolves
DC LARSON is the CD Review Editor for Rockabilly Magazine. His freelance rock'n'roll reviews and features have appeared in Goldmine, Counterpunch, Rock & Rap Confidential, Blue Suede News, Crackerjack, and others.
$10.00, 155 pgs
DC Larson
143 Dawson St
Waterloo, Iowa 50703
Who I'd like to meet:
YOU.
Author statement:
As a teenager in early 1970s Iowa, I gleefully corrupted myself with the least-respected elements pop culture offered. Friday nights were devoted to lights-off worship of local TV reruns of bargain-basement horror and sci fi melodrama. Rubbery monsters and pie-pan flying saucers enflamed my youthful imaginings, as did dog-eared copies of Marvel comics and Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine.
They provided fantastic escape from the serious world. Soundtrack existed n the form of raucous rock'n'roll blaring from a transistor radio.
While planning "Shake, Rattle & Rocket!," I researched recently-published sci fi novels. I was disappointed to find only volume upon volume presenting
mystical sorcerers, ancient sects, elf/"faerie"/human constructs, or some combination of the three.
Many books seemed interchangeable. Worse, all were deadly serious.
Where were the fun, the humor, the kicks of early sci fi and horror movies, of vintage comic books? For its part, rebellious rock'n'roll had become dull and uninspiring Corporate Rock.
Shake, Rattle & Rocket! is an homage to old-school entertainment that didn't take itself seriously. Throughout are echoes of escapist fun long since faded, but whose charms many doubtless still crave.
Some teenagers never really grow up.
- DC Larson
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and a blessed Thanksgiving. Eat well very well!
Nov 20 2009 10:09 PM
Wish you were here...would love to meet you;)
I wish you continued success in all you do.
Goodnight now and may God bless
Brian Hoffman~Red Skelton Impersonator.
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GOD BLESS YOU ALWAYS, LOVE CARMIN
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Hugs,
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