Tubular Android Superheroes [Paperback]

Mel Gilden (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Roc (October 1, 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0451451163
• ISBN-13: 978-0451451163
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,257,793 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Mel Gilden is the author of many children's books, some of which received rave reviews in such places as School Library Journal and Booklist. His multi-part stories for children appeared frequently in the Los Angeles Times. His popular novels and short stories for grown-ups have also received good reviews in the Washington Post and other publications. (See new publications under his name at the Kindle Store of Amazon.com.)
Licensed properties include adaptations of feature films, and of TV shows such as Beverly Hills, 90210; and NASCAR Racers. He has also written books based on video games and has written original stories based in the Star Trek universe. His short stories have appeared in many original and reprint anthologies.
He has written cartoons for TV, has developed new shows, and was assistant story editor for the DIC television production of The Real Ghostbusters. He consulted at Disney and Universal, helping develop theme park attractions. Gilden spent five years as co-host of the science-fiction interview show, Hour-25, on KPFK radio in Los Angeles.
Gilden lectures to school and library groups, and has been known to teach fiction writing. He lives in Los Angeles, California, where the debris meets the sea, and still hopes to be an astronaut when he grows up.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Zoot Marlowe and the Melt-O-Mobiles of Doom, April 19, 2006

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J. Dunne "voracious reader" (Pompton Plains, NJ) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tubular Android Superheroes (Paperback)

This enjoyable romp picks up where Surfing Samurai Robots and Hawaiian U.F.O. Aliens left off. For those not familiar with those two titles, suffice to say that they are a mix of science fiction, detective noir and humor that turns out to be quite enjoyable. The protagonist and narrator, Zoot Marlowe, is an alien from the planet T'toom, a wet world whose star-travelling natives learned of Earth via its radio broadcasts (they are too far away to yet have received its television broadcasts), and Zoot patterned himself after Philip Marlowe. He had, in the first novel, Surfing Samurai Robots, travelled to Earth in his spaceship, and landed in near-future Southern California. He befriended some surfers and helped them solve a mystery. Realizing his assistance was needed, he stayed to provide further assistance. In this book, Zoot is faced with the specter of a car dealer who has developed disposable automobiles that dissolve at the press of a button, but who secretly desires world domination. What ensues is pure comedy gold.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Silly and Fun, November 26, 2001

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Susan Smith "chemistx2" (Rohnert Park, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tubular Android Superheroes (Paperback)

Third in the Zoot Marlowe series, and the same as the rest: great pun-filled names, snappy "gum-shoe" patter, and a mystery set in near-future Malibu that you can solve yourself. A wonderful follow-up to Surfing Samuari Robots and Hawaiian UFO Aliens. You know you're in for fun when the first name of "Whipper" Will's dad turns out to be "Iron."