e writes laid-back fables straight out of Margaritaville, on the cusp of humor and science fiction.” where has this guy been hiding? (Answer: In plain sight, since he has a devoted cult following.). “Readers new to the work of Christopher Moore will want to know. If the ghost of Jules Verne had conspired with Rudy Rucker and Tom Robbins to produce a novel, Fluke might very well make them hang their heads in defeat.This novel is all ambergris, no blubber.” “Moore’s career has plainly been one of scaling new peaks with the current book he might just have outdone himself. “FLUKE is a lighthearted book that still manages to make some serious points about the human condition. Jacques Cousteau by way of Douglas Adams, liberally spiced with dialogue that would make Elmore Leonard proud, and a whimsical sense of the absurd not seen since Tom Robbins’s early heyday.” “ne of finest pieces of imagination since Anatole France’s Penguin Island, or George Orwell’s Animal Farm.” “ outrageous new novel … Moore is endlessly inventive … this cetacean picaresque is no fluke - it is a sure winner.” “f you ever wondered what happened to Amelia Earheart or all those folks lost in the Bermuda Triangle if you ever wonder about the nature of God if you wonder ‘why the winged whale sings’ if you want to experience the greatest satirist since Jonathan Swift - you just have to read FLUKE.”
t is difficult to put the book down, for there are astonishing new developments on every page.” But later, when a roll of film returns from the lab missing the crucial tail shot - and his research facility is trashed - Nate realizes something very fishy indeed is going on.īy turns witty, irreverent, fascinating, puzzling, and surprising, Fluke is Christopher Moore at his outrageous best. Cause no one else on his team saw a thing - not his longtime partner, Clay Demodocus not their saucy young research assistant not even the spliff-puffing white-boy Rastaman Kona (né Preston Applebaum). Trouble is, Nate’s beginning to wonder if he hasn’t spent just a little too much time in the sun. Until the extraordinary day when a whale lifts its tail into the air to display a cryptic message spelled out in foot-high letters: Bite me. Just why do humpback whales sing? Thats the question that has marine behavioral biologist Nate Quinn and his crew poking, charting, recording, and photographing very big, wet, gray marine mammals.
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