Your Overlord Thanks You

When the world is too brutal and stupid to take seriously, what is a mildly evil lesbian cyborg to do?

If you're Lex Langley, you assemble a robot army, overthrow the planet, and force Americans to accept single-payer health care and the metric system at laser point. Lex may have a quick fix for everything from child poverty (give children lots of money) to depression (give depressed people lots of money), but it's just possible she hasn't sorted out her own personal issues.

As her relationships grow ever more complicated, Lex is forced to reflect on her life-from her tender years in a horrible Christian girls' school to her struggles with the Pan-Galactic Queer Conspiracy to her fight to survive the Great American Brain Fart. And, at last, she has to confront the choice even a quantum super-computer can't make on her behalf: Does she have a chance of moving on . . . or is she cursed to live happily ever after with her high school girlfriend?

In this Very Serious Book, Benny Lawrence takes on the big issues: whether teenagers should be confined in bunkers underground, when it's appropriate to kick your best friend in the face, and how to keep your sense of humour while fighting the forces of darkness.