The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad
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The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad is a comic science fiction novel and social satire written by controversial Edmonton, Alberta, Canada writer and activist Malcolm Azania under the pen name of "Minister Faust". His first book, it received major international release in August 2004 by the publisher Random House.
Unconventionally, the novel uses a nonlinear representation of time and is told from multiple points of view. Set in Edmonton in 1995, it follows two main characters: Hamza, a former graduate student working as a dishwasher, and Yehat, a video store clerk and inventor. Both are black Canadians. Hamza is also a Muslim, although his faith is somewhat in crisis. Stuck in a rut, their lives are going nowhere until a mysterious woman shows up, seduces Hamza and draws the two into a quest for a magic artifact.
"With an attention to detail and an eye for the absurd," wrote reviewer Rick Klaw in the Austin Chronicle, "it is as if Faust channeled Mark Twain to write a Neal Stephenson novel."
