Minneapolis may be a small Midwestern city, but it is cosmopolitan and hip enough to attract weird aliens--weird aliens who look, act, and think just like us, according to the novel Flying Saucers over Hennepin. The invasion occurs in the late 1980s (the go go years, the Junk Bond Age). With the yuppies hustling and getting theirs and the slackers slacking, no one notices the creatures taking over Hennepin Avenue--except for one slacker who tries to warn the city in his staple-bound magazine. As a consequence of the invasion, characters from different strata of Minneapolis's society cross paths on one route or another toward scandal. With loving attention to local symptoms of American absurdity, Peter Gelman crushes false idols and satirizes the closing years of our century in this witty novel.
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Serious frivolity is in short supply today ... Gelman spins a hilarious tale that addresses crucial dilemmas of our modern existence via a rubber chicken upside the head. -- Asimov's Science Fiction
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