The Twist

Richard Calder. Thunder's Mouth Press, $12.95 (190pp) ISBN 978-1-56858-292-4

British author Richard Calder (Frenzetta) delivers an offbeat SF adventure yarn in the pulp tradition, The Twist, in which 1950s-vintage invaders from Venus make trouble in an old Wild West cut off from Earth in a ""psychogeographic event."" Can gunslinger John Twist prevent Venusian ""necrobabe"" Viva Venera from eating his soul-and scuttle the nefarious schemes of Queen Musidora, an even deadlier Venusian who wants to hand the CIA a secret weapon she claims will win the Cold War?

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