{"product_id":"2940013692909","title":"Five Strange Obsessions","description":"Professionally published writer Alistair Ainscott presents five offbeat speculative tales:  \"The Thriller Writer's Workshop,\" \"Tailor Maidens,\" \"Occupy Stinking America,\" \"Assailing the Void,\" and \"Trinity of the Sands.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom hotshots with something to prove, a romance of bad breath and extreme plastic surgery, to one man's burden to atone for nuclear holocaust, it doesn't get much stranger.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlistair Ainscott (@aainscott) is a research scientist by day and a writer of strange speculative tales by night. He writes tales of science gone haywire, men gone mad, oddballs gone even odder, twin toddlers run amok, cats doing the things that cats are given to do, and other nefarious goings-on of the mysterious and the unknown. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHis fiction has appeared in the professional-paying Penumbra magazine of speculative fiction from Musa Publishing, and he has also studied short fiction with Kristine Kathryn Rusch and Dean Wesley Smith.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor more information about his work, go to http:\/\/alistairainscott.wordpress.com\/.","brand":"Rapid-Dynamix Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47083150901488,"sku":"2940013692909","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013692909_p0.jpg?v=1763584592","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013692909","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}