Excellent book, I actually found this group after reading it a second time
and searching the web for Buddy sites.

peace, please.
Mark

> From: "Jon Johnson" <jon_erik@...>
> Reply-To: NotFadeAway@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 13:05:18 -0500
> To: RaB-HoF@onelist.com
> Cc: NotFadeAway@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [NotFadeAway] Buddy Holly is Alive and Well on Ganymede
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> Just finished reading this 1989 sci-fi novel by Bradley Denton that I found in
> a used bookstore a couple of weeks back. And it's a hoot, particularly for
> rockabilly fans. The story centers around a guy in Kansas named Oliver Vale
> who was conceived the night of Buddy Holly's death. A lifelong Holly fan,
> he's sitting at home one night watching "The Searchers" on his satellite dish
> when all TV signals on Earth are interrupted by a broadcast featuring an
> apparently resurrected Buddy Holly broadcasting from an environmental chamber
> on the surface of one of Jupiter's moons. What's more, Buddy is regularly
> reading a sign giving Vale's name and address that suggests that Vale knows
> how to rescue him and how to restore regular broadcasting.
> The rest of the book is something of an oddball road trip, with Vale traveling
> from Topeka to Lubbock to find out if Holly's grave has been disturbed. Along
> the way he's trying to avoid the police, a government agent who's trying to
> kill him, and a Reagan-era televangelist, hooking up from time to time with
> bikers, a Vietnam vet and his family, and a right-wing female health nut.
> If it sounds a bit wacky, it certainly is, but also a lot of fun. I think
> it's out of print at the moment but one should be able to find used copies
> without much difficulty.
> --Jon J.
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