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Dead Pan and Joe Progress

A satire on celebrity and genetic modification. The god Pan comes to Earth and because of his goats legs is mistaken for a genetically modified organism. He becomes famous, appears on a couple of TV shows, and tries to remember his original reason for coming to Earth is to thwart the intentions of his rival Joe Progress, a thoroughly modern deity. Unfortunately, a big genetics company has the patent on any mix of goat and human genes.

The opening was ranked in the top five on the peer review site YouWriteOn.com. The entire book is free to download. It's split into two parts.

Here are the options for the first download:

• PDF, 400 kB. Use the Save option in your PDF reader to save the file to your hard drive.
• Word Doc, 320 kB
• Plain Text, 200 kB. Save and then re-open (or use wordwrap) to view the file without it running off the edge of your screen.

The concluding section, part 2, is available for free here.

Tasters:

First chapter as a web page.

Second chapter as a web page.

This book first published on the Web in 2006. The author (me!) retains copyright and the book should not be republished in any way.

Email me at ajs@foxglove.co.uk with comments, suggestions and queries. This address changes periodically, just to keep spammers on their toes.

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The novel Pious in the Mornings was originally published on this page in 1999. It's no longer available.

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