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{{quote|''It came to Earth... and now its spawn goes to high school!''}}
''[[Go, Mutants!]]'' is the second novel from Larry Doyle, author of the critically acclaimed ''I Love You, Beth Cooper''. It's a [[Science Fiction|science-fiction]] story set in [[The Seventies]] of an [[Alternate Universe]], where the creatures of [[B-Movie]] legend walk the streets along with ordinary humans. The story centers on J!m Anderson--teenage son of the late Andi Ra, an evil alien that once tried to conquer the human race--as he struggles through high school and life in an alien-unfriendly society. Rounding out the cast of creatures are J!m's friends, a radioactive biker ape named Johnny Love, a gelatinous blob posing as a fat kid named Jelly, and Marie Rand, an [[Ordinary High School Student]]--and the love of J!m's life.
Apparently, it's being optioned for film. The author says he's writing the screenplay for [[Ron Howard]], but he's likely joking about that.
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* [[Affectionate Parody]]: Of cheesy [[The Fifties|1950's]] [[B-Movie|B-movies.]]
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* [[Aliens Speaking English]]: Andi Ra' learned English by watching the [[BBC]]. As a result, his way of speaking is [[Just for Pun|very British]], accent and all.
* [[Aliens Steal Cattle]]: {{spoiler|The backup plan of the [[Government Conspiracy]] to whip up anger against the aliens, monsters, mutants, and robots.}}
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* [[Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick]]: The series gets a lot of its humor from describing in-universe mundane circumstances that would be very odd to us. For example after a description of Marie's lawn, including her lawn gnomes...
{{quote|The robognomes let her pass, for it was not time for her to become her Courtesan Queen.}}
* [[The Cameo]]: Plenty of famous [[B-Movie]] monsters, from [[Godzilla]] and King Ghidorah to [[The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951 film)||Gort]].
** Not to mention [[Them]], [[The Blob]], [[The Thing (film)|The Thing]], and the Fifty Foot Woman, who left her husband to date [[Godzilla]].
*** Heck, this even applies to the main characters, who are basically the kids of said [[Attack of the 50 Foot Woman|Fifty Foot Woman]], the [[Son Of Kong]], and the son of [[The Blob]], among some humans and other alien species.
* [[Catgirl]]: J!m's mother, Miw.
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: Quite a few of them, but most notably {{spoiler|J!m's severed hand, who ends up saving Marie from Russ.}}
* [[Expy]]: J!m may remind one a bit of [[Superman|another alien living on our world]], while Andi Ra' bears quite a resemblance to [[The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951 film)||Klaatu]].
** Though this is definitely not intentional, J!m's species bears a strange resemblance to the main character in the movie [[Megamind]].
* [[ET Gave Us Wi-Fi]]: Inverted, its humanity's development of nuclear weapons that brings us to the attention of other species at first. Later played straight when {{spoiler|Andi Ra', J!m's father, builds the <s>Internet</s> Plex for humankind.}}
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