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Three times Aurora Award-nominated author Hugh A. D. Spencer collects more of his previously published short fiction in this fun collection. Featuring a series of interconnected stories about the Progressive Apparatus, a sometimes anti-muse, sometimes amoral high-tech firm, and a Galactic Super-culture that meddles in human life through heavy drugs and museum exhibits, this collection asks the big questions in science fiction. Like what happens to those breakthrough scientific projects when the funders pull the plug? What if that crazy scifi religious cult is actually on to something? How can a heartless multi-galactic corporation be affected by a small act of rebellion, like driving a truck through their headquarters? Stories in this collection Five Stories About Alan The Progressive Apparatus ...And the Retrograde Mentor ...Experience Denial Then Acceptance The Heritage Drug Project Sticky Wonder Stories The Meaning of Steel Ammonite City Cult Stories John, Paul, Xavier, Ironside and George (But Not Vincent) Foreword by Candas Jane Dorsey, multiple award-winning author of Black Wine

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Alienation is not just for extraterrestrials in this flippant and expectation-flipping collection of 10 surreal short stories. Spencer may not believe in the power of technology to save the world, but he allows humor and humanity to cushion the blow. - Publishers Weekly Hugh's work never fails to crack me up and make me think, and this is no exception. The story is touching and weird, speculative and human - a perfect metaphor for the anxiety that we feel whenever technology remakes our beloved selves and institutions. - Cory Doctorow, author of Little Brother and Attack Surface on Sticky Wonder Tales Pretty weird - you can evidently go too far with 'Evolutionary Transformation'. - Rati Mehrotra, author of Mahimata, on Sticky Wonder Tales A surreal take on an apocalyptic scenario in which roving clouds of nanobots lay waste to civilization. - The Horror Bookshelf on John, Paul, Xavier, Ironside and George (But Not Vincent)

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Three-time Aurora Award nominee, Hugh Spencer has been writing science fiction and cultural commentary (popular and otherwise) for longer than he cares to admit. He has been published in On Spec, Interzone, and Descant magazines, and has also been included in various anthologies. He also writes for radio and the stage, and has collaborated with Shoestring Radio in San Francisco, Praxis Theatre, and the Scripted Toronto Festival. He also occasionally contributes his alleged wisdom to the Gernsback Continuum, the podcast for Amazing Stories Magazine.

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