The science of lost futures
Subtitle: stories
By: by Ryan Habermeyer
Edition: First edition.
Series: American reader series -- no. 30; American reader series -- 30.
Publisher: BOA Editions, Ltd.
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9781942683605
Work titles: Short stories
Description: Drawing on urban legends, internet hoaxes, and ancient medical folklore, these stories go beyond science fiction and magical realism to create a quirky, humorous collection that revels in the alien and the absurd.
Notes: Winner of the Boa Short Fiction prize.
Table of contents: title: A cosmonaut's guide; title: To microgravitic reproduction --; title: The foot --; title: Visitation --; title: Frustations of a coyote --; title: Everything you wanted to know --; title: About astrophysics but were too afraid to ask --; title: Indulgences --; title: Ellie's brood --; title: What the body does --; title: When it doesn't know what else to do --; title: St. Abelard's zoo for endangered species --; title: The good nazi Karl Schmidt --; title: A genealogical approach to my father's ass --; title: Your tragedy is important to us --; title: The fertile yellow --; title: Veyo, forgotten by the mormons --; title: An unfinished man --; title: Valdosta, after the flood --; title: In search of fortunes not yet lost --; title: The catapult of Tooele --; title: Neophytes.