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Outrageously funny New York Times bestselling author Christopher Moore and award-winning screenwriter-director Ian Corson team up for a wacky and entertaining graphic tale of alien invasion and a motley crew of Earthlings trying to stay alive and, oh, yeah, save humankind.
Wolfram, the hero of The Eunuch's Heir, has a serious problem with cats, as you might gather from the confrontational cover. Nothing reverses the predator-prey relationship we as prime carnivores have come to expect like spending the night in a tent in the jungle. In Nepal, my husband and I visited the Royal Chitwan National Park in the hopes of seeing tigers: it never occurred to me that the tigers might also be looking for us.
As we walked the trail to the tented camp, tiger tracks marked the pathway ahead, and great claws had gouged the earth to either side. Once, the tiger had rolled in the grass. We greeted these signs eagerly, curious to know what would happen next. Breaking out of the trees, we came to a long, narrow bridge across a broad running stream. The tiger tracks continued on the other side, and they were still wet. . .
I woke that night to the sound of something whuffing in the darkness, very like the sounds of the leopard who had explored beneath the tree-house lodge on our first night in the park. My mind filled with our guide's stories of the camp cook who lost an ear to a tiger, the woman dragged from her home by an aged predator looking for weak prey, the time that all they found was a sandal. It took a very long time to get back to sleep.
Wolfram became the unlucky recipient of my nightmare. Have I mentioned that you do not want to be my hero?
-- Elaine Isaak
