Grade 6 Up-A wickedly barbed low fantasy. It's 2287, and due to a combination of bad planetary management and sheer funk, the human population has shrunk to just a handful. Having spent a year in an abandoned penthouse subsisting on roof-garden veggies and the occasional rat, young Jay gathers up his chicken, Ethel, and heads for the streets, driven by the urge to roam. Imagine Jay's surprise when Ethel suddenly introduces herself as a superbeing from Megaton, sent to rescue humans from extinction, even though they're "Dumb as cluckin' cardboard." That's not exactly the whole story: in fact, Ethel created all life on Earth, and realizing at last that she's made a serious botch of it, hopes to right things by finding out just why, for one hour on October 18th, 2042, all war, pain, and even bad weather vanished. Designating Jay the Chosen One, Ethel rounds up some companions, including the Delphic Oracle, which is currently inhabiting the body of a goldfish, and Douglas, a shambling mishmash of human and animal body parts with a potato fixation, and then rolls on to Camelot to help old Merlin, now well past his prime, repair his wrecked spaceship. This offbeat odyssey first ran as a serial on Thompson's homepage, and though it has been wrenched into a semblance of order, internal logic is not its strongest suit. Still, following the characters as they stumble into one near-catastrophe after another, Douglas Adams fans will feel right at home, and as the Quest has barely begun by book's end, sequels are all too likely.
John Peters, New York Public Library
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