AustLit

'“Threats made, threats kept, boobies!” as The GOO would tell you. Not one volume but two of the amoozing saga of the Great Orange Ogre (not forgetting our ever-imperilled heroine, Inga, and her nasty little nemesis, Chooky).

'The GOO’s reign as Oomperor of the Oompire grows ever more authoritarian — absurdly so. He complains that his ultimate enemies are comedians. They repay the compliment by punishing him with metaphors and pataphors, woeful witticisms and slurred surrealism. To add oomph to his importance, he obliterates an island of deplorables. Not content with that, he adds a secret mammalian ingredient to the orange soylent dished out to his loyoolists. And on it goes. Is there nothing his disunited domestic adversaries can do to prevent his oominence from becoming the ultimate doomagogue?

'Does it matter if the Oompire descends into chaos so long as The GOO is happy to be the cause of it? It's a worry from what the intergalactic Gieks can see, using intelligence provided by their bots, the Mute-Tint Owl, the K9Cat and the Techsect. Tempted to intervene to help Inga when all else fails, they risk facing a far worse fate.

'Indulge yourself in this darkly funny, starkly unfunny, fake fairytale at your own risk. The ultimate hoorah to satire as irony made militant, this volume closes the book on comedic indictments of authoritarians everywhere.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.