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Dadgum Martians Invade the Lucky Nickel Saloon! By Ken Rand. Cover art by Stacy Drum. Perfect-bound Trade Paperback - 200 pages $12.00 + Shipping Also available in e-book format: Amazon: Kindle

There's aliens out there!

Dadgum Martians Invade The Lucky Nickel Saloon! is about these dadgum Martians that invade the Lucky Nickel Saloon, Second Ave, Laramie, Wyoming Territory, U S of A. Only these dadgum Martians don't look like your regular Martians. No sir; they look like Earth chickens. Only these chickens have lips.

And as everybody knows, chickens with lips lisp.

Or is it Sheriff Benjamin Dover I'm thinkin' of? Never mind.

Unlessen we want to be Tooken Over, we got ourselves a saloon to save!

The classic American Tall-tale device is king here. Ken Rand offers a welcome change of pace

— Locus

Ken Rand has a knack for writing "Old West" dialect that consistently rings true.

— Lambda Sci-Fi

...the most interesting bar in the West.

— Denver Post

Clever, deft, funny and strange...and that is a very good thing.

— Bruce Taylor

A weird and wonderful bar where fantastical things happen...

— Spider Robinson, author of Callahan’s Con

It's hard to find someone to blurb a Ken Rand book because there just isn’t anyone else doing what Ken does, much less doing it better.

— Selina Rosen, author of Strange Robby