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Cursed by their gods, isolated on an island in the north Atlantic,
two Viking armies fight every day to the death of the last man.
Raised from the dead, night after night, they resume the slaughter
with every dawn. The gods have a wager on the outcome. Freyja
caught in an indiscretion with a few dwarves is trying to prove
something, unclear though her premise is, about the infinite,
undying purity of true love. However, fighting the same battles
against the same enemies for 1200 years has left the warriors more
than a little demotivated. They have begun, for the most part, to
phone in their daily quota of gut-spilling mayhem. Freyja, bored
and frustrated with the lack of effort, calls on Loki to help shake
things up. He does. He lures a dysfunctional group of students from
Blackwood University, an obscure university on the northeastern
U.S. seaboard, to the island on which the endless war has been
ongoing. The students along with the captain and crew of the
Ferret, a for-hire oceanographic survey ship, join a 16th century
Spanish conquistador, an ex-waitress from Valhalla and a trio of
Wisconsin fishermen, They've been brought to the island by Loki to
"spice things up"-and they do. Stylish, violent, humorous, cynical
and sometimes poignant Undead Vikings in Love explores teenage
angst, gay love, straight love, witchcraft, the cult of the hero
and humankind's hopeless struggle to figure out what the heck the
gods are up to. A great story and a great adventure with a great
cast of characters and a unique perspective, Undead Vikings in Love
is a very funny novel about love--undead and otherwise.
Sex, Drugs, Rock n' Roll and a crazy little thing called wood... In
a world imperiled by cyber cops, satanic CEOs and radioactive drugs
only the lowest can get to the bottom of things and put them right.
In the spirt of Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams and Johnathan Swift,
this book blazes ahead with satire, science fiction and wild humor,
cutting new paths through an urban jungle that is both alien and
painfully familiar.
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