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    Why I Hunt Flying Saucers And Other Fantasticals

    By Hugh A. D. Spencer

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    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 University

    Stories in this collection

    Why I Hunt Flying Saucers
    Icarus Down/Bear Rising
    The Triage Conference
    The Robot Reality Check
    Strategic Dog Patterning
    The Z-Burger Simulations
    Mormonism and the Saskatoon Space Programme
    Pornzilla
    The Hospital for Sick Robots
    Problem Project
    A 21st Century Scientific Romance
    When Bloomsbury Fails
    (Coping With) Norm Deviation

    Praise 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 SF

    Praise 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, Review

    Praise 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

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrain Lag
    Release dateApr 29, 2016
    ISBN9781928011095
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    Why I Hunt Flying Saucers And Other Fantasticals
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    Hugh A. D. Spencer

    Hugh A.D. Spencer completed graduate studies at the University of Toronto and McMaster University where he conducted anthropological studies into the origins of religious movements in science fiction fandom. Twice nominated for Canada’s Aurora Award, Hugh’s science fiction has been published in On Spec, Tesseracts 8, 11 and 6, Interzone, Descant and New Writings in the Fantastic. Many of his short stories have been dramatized by Shoestring Radio Theatre for the Satellite Network of National Public Radio. His most recent short stories are “Five Stories About Alan” which was published in Dandelions of Mars: A Tribute to Ray Bradbury and “John, Paul, Xavier, Ironside & George (but not Vincent)” which was published in the new Ominous Realities anthology. Hugh is also President and Senior Consultant of the cultural consulting company Museum Planning Partners. He worked on the Ontario Prehistory and Canadian Ethnology galleries at the Royal Ontario Museum and has travelled to Asia, Europe, Australia and throughout North America on assignment for many different museum, art gallery, science centre and world’s fair projects. Even with all this travel, he always happy to return to his home in the aging suburbs of Toronto which he shares with his family, friends and two dogs.

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