Hugh A. D. Spencer

Broschiertes Buch

Why I Hunt Flying Saucers And Other Fantasticals

A Science Fiction Short Story Retrospective

Beschreibung

Hugh A. D. Spencer's weird, wonderful, side-splitting short fiction has been delighting audiences for over 25 years. His stories have been published in a variety of magazines and anthologies and broadcast on National Public Radio satellite networks. Now collected together for the first time, Why I Hunt Flying Saucers And Other Fantasticals contains thirteen of his best-loved stories, along with all-new introductions by the author.Malfunctioning household robots, an endless apocalyptic loop, potash-fuelled interstellar travel, and more-these stories stretch science fiction to its limit and bring it into our backyards at the same time.Includes the Aurora Award-nominated story "Why I Hunt Flying Saucers"!Foreword by Dr. John Colarusso, Professor of Linguistics, McMaster UniversityStories in this collectionWhy I Hunt Flying SaucersIcarus Down/Bear RisingThe Triage ConferenceThe Robot Reality CheckStrategic Dog PatterningThe Z-Burger SimulationsMormonism and the Saskatoon Space ProgrammePornzillaThe Hospital for Sick RobotsProblem ProjectA 21st Century Scientific RomanceWhen Bloomsbury Fails(Coping With) Norm DeviationPraise for the stories in this collection"'Why I Hunt Flying Saucers' delivers a superb jolt of humour." ~ Toronto Star"[O]ne of the best, and most original, stories." ~ Locus Magazine on "(Coping With) Norm Deviation""'Problem Project'... is a whipsaw change in tone... A tight grin of a story, not quite a laugh, but lingering." ~ Tangent"Spencer has fun with quantum realities." ~ Best SF on "Problem Project""'Pornzilla' was weird beyond belief." ~ Best SFPraise for Extreme Dentistry"Spencer stacks it with so many odd elements that it all works. Well worth searching out." ~ Toronto Star"Extreme Dentistry is very funny and quite horrific." ~ Amazing Stories"A dark and mordantly funny satire." ~ Armed and Dangerous"Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy vibe." ~ Read, Play, ReviewPraise for the writing of Hugh A. D. Spencer"Hugh's work never fails to crack me up and make me think." ~ Cory Doctorow, author of Little Brother and Homeland"Lucid, lyrical, and savvy." ~ Paul Levinson, author of Unburning Alexandria and The Silk Code"If you like to laugh and cower at the same time-if you like science fiction that is simultaneously progressive and retro-then you need to read this... Like nothing I've ever read before. Highly recommended." ~ Dale Sproule, author of Psychedelia Gothique

Autor

Hugh A. D. Spencer's short fiction has been published in magazines and anthologies such as Descant, Interzone, On Spec and the Tesseracts series. Most of these stories are now avail able in Why I Hunt Flying Saucers and The Progressive Apparatus from Brain Lag Pub lishing. His novel Extreme Dentistry, also from Brain Lag, was released in 2014. Hugh developed a passion for aural performance by listening to the 1938 War of the Worlds "panic broadcast", the BBC Radio serial of The Day of the Triffids, as well as every Firesign Theatre LP he could get his hands on. He went on to adapt much of his own work into audio dramas which have been performed by Shoestring Radio Theatre for the Public Radio Satellite Network.Hugh was twice nominated for the Aurora Award in Canada for best short story (English) in 1992 and as media curator and writer for the National Library of Canada's exhibition on science fiction and fantasy (1996). His story "(Coping with) Norm Deviation" received an honourable mention in The Year's Best Science Fiction (2007). In May 2019, his play "The Triage Conference" was performed at the Scripted Toronto Theatre Festival. His second novel, The Hard Side of the Moon, was released in hardback in 2021 and in paperback in 2023. All of the plays in this volume were performed by Shoestring Radio Theatre from 2004 to 2016.Hugh's research into the origins of contemporary religious movements in science fiction fandom was funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council and is available online from McMaster University or through the reference collections of the Toronto Public Library. He is also the president of The Museum Planners Group, an international cultural consulting firm, and lives in walking distance of Lake Ontario in Toronto, Canada-which is very convenient for walking dogs and admiring ducks.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Brain Lag
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 127mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9781928011071
• ISBN-10: 1928011071
• Artikelnr.: 44975080