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Corrupting Dr. Nice by John Kessel (1997, Hardcover)

Author: John Kessel
Publisher: St Martins Pr
Publication Date: 1997-02-01
Language: English
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0312861168
ISBN-13: 9780312861162
Product ID: EPID241874
Description: This clever mix of dry satire and broad farce is a fairly faithful SF homage to Preston Sturges's 1941 film THE LADY EVE. Genevieve Faison and her father August are con artists in the 21st century--and pretty much in every other century,...
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This clever mix of dry satire and broad farce is a fairly faithful SF homage to Preston Sturges's 1941 film THE LADY EVE. Genevieve Faison and her father August are con artists in the 21st century--and pretty much in every other century, too, as time travel has become a popular tourist attraction. A major part of her stock-in-trade consists of getting men into sexually (and financially) compromising positions, and so Genevieve has worked hard not to mix business with pleasure. But then she makes the mistake of falling in love with the Faisons' next mark, the socially inept and extremely wealthy scientist, Dr. Owen Vannice, who is attempting to smuggle a Cretaceous-era dinosaur back to his home time period.

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Publication Date:1997-02-01

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Length:316 pages
Height:9.0 in
Width:5.8 in
Thickness:1.2 in
Weight:17.6 oz

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August Faison and his gorgeous young daughter, Genevieve, are rogues of the first water - seasoned swindlers who rove across time in search of new victims to fleece. Now the most precious pigeon of them all has fallen into their laps, in Jerusalem at the time of Christ. Dr. Owen Vannice is too innocent, and far too rich, for his own good. A fabulously wealthy young amateur paleontologist who has just spent the last year, and billions of his parents' dollars, doing research in the Cretaceous period, he finds himself stranded in the Holy City with a rapidly growing baby dinosaur in tow. Simon is a disillusioned disciple whose master has been kidnapped uptime by colonists from the future. Now he works for the exploitive crosstime corporations, which have turned his timeline into a tourist trap, complete with luxury hotels and junkets to the Crucifixion. When a desperate act of sabotage brings them all together, their lives are drastically transformed.

Dr. Vannice is young and very, very rich. He's just spent a year in the Cretaceous era, and is returning UpTime with a living baby dinosaur. Genevieve and August are con artists, working across time. When they arrive on the transtemporal stage at the Jerusalem 42 C.E. Hilton at the same moment as the famous "Dr. Nice" and his dinosaur, they know an opportunity when they see it. But nothing goes as planned: Genevieve finds herself actually falling in love with Vannice, while Vannice finds himself falling in with the revolutionary plans of the Nazarene's disciples to drive out the exploitive cross-time corporations.

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"...there is no doubt that Kessel's novel is the most deft, most entertaining and politically savvy time-travel novel of the '90s. Kessel, whose humor...can sometimes become labored beneath the weight of his other concerns, manages this time to pull everything off at once."
Washington Post Book World - Gregory Feeley (12/29/1996)

"Kessel's comic timing is perfect, and 'Corrupting Dr. Nice' is suffused with gentle good humor. Kessel treats his characters with warmth and compassion even while he's putting them through the ringer."
San Francisco Chronicle Book Review - Daniel Marcus (02/23/1997)

"I have a vision of someone buying this book for its 'Jurassic Park' dinosaur cover, being swept away by its romantic comedy, but emerging from the experience of reading it thinking, ever so slightly, that our actions have consequences. Surely that is a desirable effect of one's consumption of an artifact, and a worthwhile task for an artifact to achieve before it consumes itself."
New York Review of Science Fiction - F. Brett Cox (06/19/1997)

"Riotous, mordant satire."
Lessing

"Social commentary is too tame a term for Kessel's caustic, cautionary and endlessly entertaining examination of the modern human condition. Kessel's writing, which recalls the best of such cutting-edge authors as Norman Spinrad and Philip K. Dick, while retaining its own acidic elegance of style, is nothing less than brilliant."
Jones

"'Corrupting Dr. Nice' is speculative farce at its best, layering conventional sci-fi elements with wicked satire. Read it now before the Neo-Victorians come back and take it away."
Berkowitz

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