num_pages: 354
description: Author Erika Hammerschmidt presents a collection of short stories mingling science fiction, fantasy and realism, inspired by her experience as a space alien trapped in a human body (or, as her psychiatrist prefers to call her, a person on the autism spectrum). In this widely varied compendium, people grow on trees. Diplomats from another planet negotiate through sculpture. A sixteen-year-old mutant runs away. A toddler explores the great indoors, then creates a world in a computer. A grandfather plays devil's advocate. An angel screws up. A genie goes atomic. A nerd is reborn. Two lovers learn to fly. A jewelry box learns to communicate. A time traveler disappears without ever going back in time. A teenager on a starship goes crazy. And the world ends in more ways than one.
language: English
title: If the World Ended, Would I Notice?
publisher: Erika Hammerschmidt