Shane M.
Author David Bischoff has deservedly "hit the robot on the head" with the publication and advent of this novel published over twenty years ago. Broadly reminiscent of Philip K. Dick's own wildly inventive forays into unreality, viz; "The Simulacra," "We Can Build You," "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (the same award-winning novel that inspired director James Cameron's cinematic extravaganza "Blade-Runner") and the shorter more existential short fiction "Imposter," along with "The Electric Ant."
Because the novel takes place in a Dwight D. Eisenhower High School, the plot twists and interactions between students and teachers alike (both friend and foe) will most certainly remind movie-goers and cinema buffs of an alien invasion cut from similar cloth, viz; "The Faculty." Going back further into the late seventies and early eighties are also the trope-filled and turgidly triumphant "Class of 1984" and its sequel "Class of 1994," (both theatrical releases which immediately when both "straight to VHS home video" and late-night "television syndication" sci-fi viewership markets, w/Pam Grier, Stacey Keach, and that "actor's everyman," Roddy McDowell.
Author David Bischoff has deservedly "hit the robot on the head" with the publication and advent of this novel published over twenty years ago. Broadly reminiscent of Philip K. Dick's own wildly inventive forays into unreality, viz; "The Simulacra," "We Can Build You," "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (the same award-winning novel that inspired director James Cameron's cinematic extravaganza "Blade-Runner") and the shorter more existential short fiction "Imposter," along with "The Electric Ant."
Because the novel takes place in a Dwight D. Eisenhower High School, the plot twists and interactions between students and teachers alike (both friend and foe) will most certainly remind movie-goers and cinema buffs of an alien invasion cut from similar cloth, viz; "The Faculty." Going back further into the late seventies and early eighties are also the trope-filled and turgidly triumphant "Class of 1984" and its sequel "Class of 1994," (both theatrical releases which immediately when both "straight to VHS home video" and late-night "television syndication" sci-fi viewership markets, w/Pam Grier, Stacey Keach, and that "actor's everyman," Roddy McDowell.