{"product_id":"9781928011071","title":"Why I Hunt Flying Saucers And Other Fantasticals: A Science Fiction Short Story Retrospective","description":"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, \u003ci\u003eWhy I Hunt Flying Saucers And Other Fantasticals\u003c\/i\u003e contains thirteen of his best-loved stories, along with all-new introductions by the author.\u003cp\u003eMalfunctioning 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIncludes the Aurora Award-nominated story \"Why I Hunt Flying Saucers\"!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eForeword by Dr. John Colarusso, Professor of Linguistics, McMaster University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStories in this collection\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy I Hunt Flying Saucers\u003cbr\u003eIcarus Down\/Bear Rising\u003cbr\u003eThe Triage Conference\u003cbr\u003eThe Robot Reality Check\u003cbr\u003eStrategic Dog Patterning\u003cbr\u003eThe Z-Burger Simulations\u003cbr\u003eMormonism and the Saskatoon Space Programme\u003cbr\u003ePornzilla\u003cbr\u003eThe Hospital for Sick Robots\u003cbr\u003eProblem Project\u003cbr\u003eA 21st Century Scientific Romance\u003cbr\u003eWhen Bloomsbury Fails\u003cbr\u003e(Coping With) Norm Deviation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraise for the stories in this collection\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"'Why I Hunt Flying Saucers' delivers a superb jolt of humour.\" ~ Toronto Star\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[O]ne of the best, and most original, stories.\" ~ Locus Magazine on \"(Coping With) Norm Deviation\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"'Problem Project'... is a whipsaw change in tone... A tight grin of a story, not quite a laugh, but lingering.\" ~ Tangent\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Spencer has fun with quantum realities.\" ~ Best SF on \"Problem Project\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"'Pornzilla' was weird beyond belief.\" ~ Best SF\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraise for Extreme Dentistry\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Spencer stacks it with so many odd elements that it all works. Well worth searching out.\" ~ Toronto Star\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Extreme Dentistry is very funny and quite horrific.\" ~ Amazing Stories\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A dark and mordantly funny satire.\" ~ Armed and Dangerous\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy vibe.\" ~ Read, Play, Review\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraise for the writing of Hugh A. D. Spencer\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Hugh's work never fails to crack me up and make me think.\" ~ Cory Doctorow, author of Little Brother and Homeland\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Lucid, lyrical, and savvy.\" ~ Paul Levinson, author of Unburning Alexandria and The Silk Code\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brain Lag","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47047721713904,"sku":"9781928011071","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781928011071_p0.jpg?v=1763636789","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781928011071","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}