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
ISBN: 978-1-928011-07-1
Genre: Short stories/Science fiction
Age: 18+
Pages: 278
Formats: Paperback, ebook
Released: April 2016
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Spencer is an author who should be better known. His writing is lively and topical, and ranges across a number of different forms… The genre satire is spot on.
Toronto Star
Highly intelligent stuff. Brilliantly original. Disturbing and funny. Thought-provoking and entertaining. Frankly, the best kind of science fiction. What science fiction is meant to be. First class.
Amazing Stories
[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