Surfing Samurai Robots

By Mel Gilden

Book Overview

He called himself Zoot Marlowe, said he'd just blown in from Bay City. But even the wacked out surfer dudes could tell that the four-foot detective with the giant schnoz was from somewhere out of their world. Still, he could throw a mean Frisbee and he said he was a private eye, and when someone decided to smash and trash all the surfing robots in Malibu just days before the biggest surfing contest of the year, Zoot was the only being around willing to track the 'bot-beaters down. But Zoot didn't know just how widespread a conspiracy he was about to run up against. For this first case of his Earthly career would see him taking on everything from the Malibu cops to Samurai robots; motorcycle madmen to talking gorillas; and a misplaced mistress of genetic manipulation! Book jacket.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0451451007
• ISBN13: 9780451451002
• Release Date: August 1991
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.0" x 1.0" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

One of the most killer books of all time.

Detective Zoot Marlowe, endlessly quipping geek from the planet T'toom, faces his first case on earth. Can he unravel this gnarly mystery in time to keep his endless-summer gang of Malibu beach buddies from losing the Surf-o-rama? Are the suit-wearing gorillas behind it? Or maybe the guy with his brain in a lobster?Mel Gilden blends surf movie satire with just plain, good, detective mystery plotting to achieve a highly humerous and engrossing novel.This book really is a genre of its own.

Laughs cover-to-cover!

This is an excellent book! How do you combine aliens with surfers and biochemistry and Sam Spade (excuse me, Phillip Marlowe) and make it funny? I have no idea, but Mel Gilden does it effortlessly. Filled with outrageous situations and larger-than-life characters, this book is a delight to read. Highly recommended.

The best sci-fi humor I've read ever!

My introduction to "Surfing Samurai Robots" was many years ago, when I was strolling through the public library and the cover caught my eye. Any book that depicted a camel-nosed alien standing next to a posing surfer robot had to be interesting, at least. I wasn't disappointed. Mel Gilden's blend of the absurdly humorous characters is excellent, yet he also delivers a rather gripping tale of intrigue.This is just the right book for those wishing to while away a hot summer at the beach, or an evening at home during the depths of winter. Reading this book will not make you rich, but it might just make you want to try yoyogurt after that birthday party binge. ^_^