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Novelist Larry Doyle must be flying pretty high right now. After all, the guy hasn't even finished his current work-in-progress, "Go Mutants!" and it's already been picked up for a silver screen treatment. He'll have to do double-duty now, penning out a script as he completes the book. I think he'll somehow find a way to manage.

The story is described by Variety as a "teen comedy/adventure set in a high school." Expect both film and book to draw heavily from classic Hollywood sci-fi; the idea behind "Go Mutants!" is that "all the tropes from classic 1950s alien invasion movies came true." Things are taken a step further than that even: years after the initial invasions, human and alien societies have commingled to the point that their children go to school together. Read more...

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