In the June 2014 Locus, Gary K. Wolfe reviewed James Morrow’s “manic tall tale" The Madonna and the Starship.

The story has the tone of a manic tall tale, and is often just as hilarious, but it also includes some sly and knowledgeable references to early 1950s TV and SF culture. 

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Ideas liked that might echo Morrow’s more serious novels like The Last Witchfinder, but for the most part the novel’s freewheeling tone echoes not so much earlier Morrow, or even Vonnegut, but the work of another SF writer actually working during this era – Frederic Brown, whose Martians, Go Home, with its heckling alien invaders and parody of SF writers, came to mind more than once.

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