title: The Strange Adventures of Rangergirl: A Novel
author:  Tim Pratt 
description: Pratt (<I>Little Gods</I>), praised for his short fiction, stumbles in his first novel. Marzipan "Marzi" McCarty, a 20ish California art school dropout, writes quirky comics. Marzi's also the night manager&ndash;barista of Genius Loci, a Santa Cruz coffeehouse decorated by vanished muralist Garamond Ray to hold in elemental Evil. The wild adventures that Marzi concocts for her cowpunk character, Rangergirl, start coming true after her artsy friends become obsessed with freeing weird gods. When the Outlaw, a representative of everyone's worst fears, busts loose from its surreal corral, the Desert Lands, it's up to Marzi, the new artist-guardian, to save the whole shootin' match from disaster. Pratt's simplistic message, glimpsed sporadically behind clouds of neo-hippie jargon, self-consciously naughty language, outdoor sex and nasty violence, is pretentious and even a little na&iuml;ve&mdash;that art can trap our fears and hold them at bay. Like too much marzipan, it all turns cloying mighty fast, pardners. <I>(Dec.)</I> <BR>Copyright &copy; Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
zlib_text: RANGER
  
  K.M. NEUHOLD
  NORA PHOENIX
  
  Ranger by K.M. Neuhold and Nora Phoenix
  Copyright ©2020 K.M. Neuhold and Nora Phoenix
  Cover design: Quinn Ward
  Editing: Tanja Ongkiehong
  All rights reserved. No part of this story may be used, reproduced, or transmitted in any form by any means without the written
  permission of the copyright holder, except in case of brief quotations and embodied within critical reviews and articles.
  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the products of the author’s imagination or are used
  fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental. The use
  of any real company and/or product names is for literary effect only. All other trademarks and copyrights are the property of their
  respective owners.
  This book contains sexually explicit material which is suitable only for mature readers.
  
  CONTENTS
  1. Ranger
  2. Julian
  3. Ranger
  4. Julian
  5. Ranger
  6. Ju