Sly Mongoose is the third science fiction novel of Caribbean writer Tobias S. Buckell. The novel is a standalone but is set in the same universe as Buckell's novels Crystal Rain and Ragamuffin. The novels are also linked by a recurring character.
The name "Sly Mongoose" is taken from a Jamaican folk song. The tune has been covered by different jazz musicians including Charlie "Bird" Parker and Louis Armstrong. The song is well known around the Caribbean and versions with differing lyrics have been sung as calypsos. Lord Invader (of Rum and Coca Cola Fame) and Sam Manning recorded the song. The Jamaican National Dance Theatre Company have performed the song in a dance choreographed by the late Rex Nettleford.
Famous quotes containing the word sly:
“I teazed him with fanciful apprehensions of unhappiness. A moth having fluttered round the candle, and burnt itself, he laid hold of this little incident to admonish me; saying, with a sly look, and in a solemn but quiet tone, “That creature was its own tormentor, and I believe its name was BOSWELL.””
—James Boswell (1740–1795)