So over my trip I reread the old Jack Yeovil books Demon Download and Krocodile Tears.
In the distant future year of 1999, Oliver North is President, evil Mormons are plotting to summon Cthulhu and everyone drives spikey cars with guns on them.
They're two of my favorite books, loaded with insane ideas, over the top violence and at least 10 pop culture references a page.
Just great.
They're also one of the great unfinished symphonies. Jack Yeovil (a pen name for Kim Newman) wrote 3 (or 4, I'll get to that later) books, the aforementioned Demon Download and Krocodile Tears and Comeback Tour where retired special forces officer and former singer Elvis Aron Presley fights mutant alligator men in Florida. But the last book, U.S. Cavalry was never printed, the only copy was lost in a computer crash years ago.
There's also a short story that launched the series called Route 666, included in a short story collection conveniently called Route 666 edited by David Pringle.
Here's where things get complicated.
At some point the short story Route 666, was blown up into a novel called... naturally enough, Route 666 by Jack Yeovil.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1852833688/ref=ox_sc_act_title_2?ie=UTF8&m=A1JHNNKN9AE6HO
Comparing the information on this page to my copy of the Pringle short story collection this looks like a different book, different ISBN, different page count.
So should I go ahead and order it? Does anyone know if it has illustrations and other features? Worth ordering from the
UK just to have a complete set of the Boxtree books?
And by the way
GW eventually rereleased Route 666 the novel by Yeovil, but edited it to update the timeline and cultural references. So it's not like I haven't read the book...
http://www.amazon.com/Route-Dark-Future-Jack-Yeovil/dp/184416327X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1339113242&sr=8-1