Placenta of Love [Paperback]

Spike Marlowe (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 22, 2011

PLANET-SIZED AMUSEMENT PARKS, ROBO-PIRATES, AND A SENTIENT PLACENTA!

Step right up! Captain Carl the robo-pirate is one of the few Artificial Intelligences living on Venus-the amusement park planet. When Carl is given the spark of intelligence by his creator, he becomes a creator himself. No longer just an automaton from a pirate ride, Captain Carl creates the love of his life and searches for her perfect body. He thinks he's found it in a big placenta. But programming is everything.

When the placenta's desire to reproduce kicks in, the whole park is endangered as the organ grows to monster size, spreading placenta babies across the planet and eating all the rides (and the people riding them!). Captain Carl must band together with a cat, a creator, and the Pope of The Church of Transubstantial Birth Fear to stop his love from killing everyone and destroying the park.

YARRRRR!

Product Details

• Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: Eraserhead Press (October 22, 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1621050033
• ISBN-13: 978-1621050032
• Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.2 x 8.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #396,693 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Spike Marlowe and her Siamese twin sister were born to academics in Provo, Utah during the region's speculative fiction renaissance. Since her teenage years, when Spike's parents and sister entered the Federal Witness Protection Program--which necessitated the surgical separation of Spike from her sister (if you buy her a couple drinks and ask nicely, Spike may show you the scars)--she has held a variety of odd jobs, including a performer in a wild west show, detective, Bigfoot researcher and writer for an Internet content farm. Recently she found her calling as a Bizarro author. When she's not writing fiction she works as a street busker in San Francisco. At night she fights crime.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Robo-Pirates and LOVE! November 13, 2011

By Jspot da Fiendish_Thingy

Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase

1ST!!! Holy crap this was a hell of a read! Very worth it if you like Bizarro Fiction. The undertones of the humor in a story that questions life, love, and even the purpose of religion in a small Novella. It touches even in the future we are gluttons for finding ecstasy. But that's with the whole study of the book stuff that we need to save for a college class.

Honestly on with the normal everyday review for the rest of us not wanting to analyze a book because it's for a grade. I went into this with the expectations that the book description gave me and I was not prepared for the detailed descriptions of the world. If you have been to an amusement park, the Author seriously takes those experiences and makes this world real. Anyone who has been searching for self and love understand the main character, the Author makes Carl recognizable. We all have that awkward friend like Jiji. Useful for information but always wants something weird from us. SPANKIES!!! I like how the overall story is definitely done in some way before, anymore it's rare to not find a story like that, BUT!, the Author makes it done in such a way that you aren't sure what will happen for sure until it's finished. I feel this is fresh and new compared to much of what I have read lately. The events and possibilities are imaginative, creative, and universal. Must read more from Spike Marlowe!!!!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Ji Ji won my heart November 22, 2012

By Tiffany Scandal

Format:Paperback

The novella reads out a lot like a dream. With vividly colorful landscapes, robots, pirates (robo-pirates FTW!), a black cat who loves to be spanked -- this contains many elements that, although can stand well on their own, are pieced together so beautifully to create this story. While the relationship between Carl the Captain and Helen the AI chip later-turned placenta won over the hearts of many (just judging by the previous comments), I would have to say the evolution of Carl the Captain was by far my favorite aspect of this story. Carl started out as just a robo-pirate manning a neglected ride, but you quickly learn that he yearns for more. When his maker dies, Carl latches onto the next "living" thing that will speak him as something more than just a robot - a cat named Ji Ji. However, because Ji Ji is a total power bottom and requires the spankings of many, Carl forms a relationship with Helen the AI chip. When Helen "goes bad," Carl is devastated, but finds it within himself to become the pirate that he was always meant to be. Seeing him evolve as a character is so moving and exciting, and so often, I found myself wanting to yell, 'go, Carl!" In many respects, Carl's character reminds me of Edward Scissorhands... only a robot pirate with a borrowed vibrator finger.

This book is amazing. I happily recommend it to anyone interested in bizarro fiction.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Strange and great! May 5, 2012

By Meryl

Format:Paperback

I'm determined to read all of this year's New Bizarro books and I've got to say that of the ones that I've read so far, this is the one that has struck the best chord with me. And certainly this is the book that seems determined to put the 'weird' in weird fiction. Hits the perfect harmony between comedy and genuine emotion, Placenta of Love is a really great read. You should definitely read it. You already know from reading the description that it's about a theme park robot falling in love with a giant sentient placenta; the book way may be extremely strange, but it's really, really smart about it.