On an alien planet dripping with B-movie tropes, monsters, literal and figurative, terrorize the populace. A ragtag group of misfits and castaways — brainwashed cops, “far-out space chicks,” Marxist construction workers, zombie nurses, space cowboys, and an army of women astride handsome griffins — must come together to fight an evil mad scientist and bring about an age of justice and compassion. A companion novel to the Mannequin Planet rock music album of the same name.