Odd Jobs, Inc. #2-#3 + SSC Series by Ron Goulart
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Overview: Much of Goulart’s other work is, in fact, journeyman, though even in the most casually executed tale his smooth dialogue-driven style is always recognizable. In the mid-1970s and 1980s he wrote under various pseudonyms, including the House Names Kenneth Robeson and Con Steffanson, as well as personal pseudonyms like Chad Calhoun, R T Edwards, Ian R Jamieson, Josephine Kains, Jillian Kearny, Howard Lee, Zeke Masters, Frank S Shawn and Joseph Silva; interspersed amongst this work are a substantial array of novelizations and other routine work.
Odd Jobs sequence – beginning with Odd Job #101 and Other Future Crimes and Intrigues (coll 1974) and ending with Brainz, Inc. (1985) – is … gripping as stories segue into novels.
Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror
Odd Job 101 And Other Future Crimes and Intrigues (1974)
These short stories are a happy blend of science fiction with detection and intrigue, told with Goulart’s inimitable dry humor. Here are various exploits of Jose Silvera, the free-lance writer whose fetish about getting paid complicates his life no matter what planet he’s on. In addition to the Silvera stories, there’s an attempted theft by teleportation or a religious relic known as the Verdadero Brickbat; a time traveler who foils the Fiend of Nob Hill in a fine parody of the hard-boiled detective school; an urban guerrilla who became the enemy’s secret weapon; and a husband and wife team who rescue the president of the U.S. from the clutches of the Svengali Institute.
02 Hail Hibbler
Jake Pace is battling a bistro’s worth of robotic mafia goons when the government comes to ask him a favor. The Department of Big Business has a particularly sensitive murder on its hands, and Jake, proprietor of Odd Jobs, Inc., is a sensitive detective. A week ago, Statz Kazee announced to a television audience of 140 million that his next scoop would blow the lid off the international business community. Hours later, he was found shot to death, and every federal policemen sent to investigate the murder has wound up dead. Now it’s Jake’s problem.
After battling malfunctioning skycars, sinking houses, and mysterious cowboys, Jake and his wife learn that Statz had information about the fearsome Adolph Hibbler, the nastiest sinner to ever come out of the Nazi scientific community. Seventy years after the end of the war, Hibbler is back, and he’ll burn America to the ground if Jake can’t handcuff him first.
03 Big Bang
Jake Pace comes to on the floor of a dungeon, where a robot jailer is killing rats. The last twenty-four hours are a blank; he doesn’t remember anything since he stepped into his skycar, chasing a tip on the Big Bang murders. For weeks the killings have stumped every officer in the government—costing six of them their lives—but a soprano named Palsy Hatchbacker told Jake she knew something that could break open the case. Before he met Miss Hatchbacker, a carnation-wearing goon spritzed Jake with a memory-wiping spray. When the police found him, he was sleeping peacefully next to Palsy’s corpse, a laser pistol in his hand.
While he rots in jail, the Big Bang killer continues his rampage. Only Jake can bring him to justice, but first he must break out of an inescapable jail.
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