Why I Hunt Flying Saucers And Other Fantasticals

by Hugh A. D. Spencer

Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781928011095
Publisher:	Brain Lag
Publication date:	04/28/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	278
File size:	501 KB

About the Author

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 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 traveled 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.

Table of Contents

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