num_pages: 99
description: Professional debunker Rob, proprietor of the Jaundiced Eye magazine, considers himself incredibly lucky to have Kildy as his sole employee. Smart, dedicated, gorgeous, and, thanks to her last movie before she hung up on Hollywood, rich, she's a pleasure to oblige when she says Rob has to witness this channeler Ariaura's act--on her, not the Eye's, nickel--despite channelers being so last year. It's quite a show, all right, for in the midst of Ariaura's particular ancient wise guy's basso spiel, a gravelly baritone interrupts (both voices emanate from the channeler's female mouth) to berate the audience as "yaps" and the act as "claptrap." Why is Ariaura undermining herself? Or is she? After all, she angrily accuses Rob and Kildy of scheming to destroy her. Could the baritone belong to a genuine channeled spirit? Willis, one of sf's most spirited writers, rounds on the New Age; pays tribute to a great, skeptical journalist; and affectionately parodies pulp fiction at its best in this irresistible entertainment.
language: English
title: Inside Job
titlecomplete: Inside Job
genres: Audiobook, Short Stories, Novella, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, Mystery, Fiction, Humor
ratings_count: 1933
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Hugo Award
category: Best Novella, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Locus Award
category: Best Novella, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award, awardedAt: 1451635200000
name: Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire
category: Nouvelle étrangère, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Premio Ignotus
category: Mejor cuento extranjero (Best Foreign Story), awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Asimov's Readers' Poll Award
category: Best Novella
publisher: Subterranean