1,492,633 Marlon Brandos

At three o'clock in the morning, an ordinary city is transformed. Men from every walk of life—clerks, professors, laborers, businessmen—rise from their beds and spill into the streets with a strange new swagger, as if a single electric force has seized their bodies and turned them all into the same dangerous, irresistible type. In 1,492,633 Marlon Brandos, Vance Aandahl delivers a sharp, funny, and wildly imaginative satire of masculinity, conformity, and mass behavior. With gleaming wit and feverish energy, the story follows a night of escalating unrest as thousands of men roam the city in search of meaning, mischief, and women, only to find themselves caught in a dreamlike surge of pride, frustration, and absurdity. A brilliantly comic riff on celebrity, rebellion, and the myths men build around themselves, this is science fiction with a satirical bite and a surreal sense of fun. Aandahl's prose is vivid, playful, and unnervingly prophetic, capturing both the ridiculousness and the menace of collective obsession. Provocative, fast-moving, and darkly funny, 1,492,633 Marlon Brandos is a compact burst of mid-century imagination that still feels startlingly fresh today. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.