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- Bomb Baby by Tom Bradley
- American Dream by Jim Chaffee
- Sao Paulo Blues by James Chaffee
- The Vicious Circulation of Dr Catastrope by Kane X. Faucher
- Professor Montgomery Cristo by Kane Faucher
- ZOMG! by Kane Faucher
- Field Reporting by Vernon Frazer
- The Unwelcome Guest plus Nin and Nan by Eckhard Gerdes
- Three Psychedelic Novellas by Eckhard Gerdes
- Adventures on the High Seas by GX Jupitter-Larsen
- Eat the Word by Robert Lort
- Voices by Kyle Muntz
- VII by Kyle Muntz
- In Great Company by Michael J. Seidlinger
- My Pet Serial Killer by Michael J. Seidlinger
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THE UNWELCOME GUEST plus NIN AND NAN by ECKHARD GERDESMainstay of the Bizarro genre, Eckhard Gerdes' signature humour and deftness with the absurd makes this double novel another feather in a very heavy cap. Fan-favorite novelist Eckhard Gerdes is back, and this time with both barrels loaded! These two novels tackle modern life’s complexities as only the twelve-gauge pen of Eckhard Gerdes can. The Unwelcome Guest is the story of one man’s flight from paranoia, and Nin & Nan features a gender-ambiguous couple who take on the entire federal government. Both novels are richly humorous, but at the core of each is the pressing concern that modern concerns are pressing on us too much.Twice a top-ten finisher in the Preditors and Editors annual readers’ poll of the best novels of the year, Gerdes is certain to delight his legion of loyal literati with his legendary legerdemain in this new double offering. Sit down, relax, and take off your socks—you’d laugh them off anyway as you read The Unwelcome Guest and Nin and Nan. Review quotes: These two short novels give us the human interior as refracted in experience, reaffirming Eckhard's position as THE author of contemporary experimental fiction. Every time I pick up one of his books,I feel like he's giving a gift to the world. — Kyle Muntz, author of Voices. Amazing, inventive, risky and highly entertaining. — Howard Kaylan, The Turtles and The Mothers of Invention Gerdes has a poetic sensibility which takes no prisoners. — Steve Beard, author of Meat Puppet Cabaret A writer clearly impatient with the currently devalued conventions of modern fiction. His work is a fresh wind. I congratulate Gerdes on raising this particular storm! — Michael Moorcock A reading experience that will make you glad again and again to know Eckhard Gerdes and his textsare in the world. — Lance Olsen, American Book Review In Eckhard Gerdes' anticipated keen-witted wordplay and comical grotesqueries, it is not the head but the heart that is foregrounded. That is the bleak truth around which Gerdes' bereft protagonistsrotate endlessly, hopelessly—except that it is their very hopelessness which, dialectically, invokes the brilliant dazzle of the narrative. — Harold Jaffe, author of Jesus Coyote and 15 Serial Killers. Excerpt: ____A fish was swimming in the sunstreams. He’d surface in the epicenter of splashes. He sewed the ocean shut. ____The birds cried out, "Oh, tailors of fish, come to us so we might save our friends the fish from suffocation." ____The tailors honored the request and opened the ocean. The birds began to dive and catch the fish. Coleridge betrayed the albatross. ____If fifteen men ate eggs for breakfast, not one would have praised the albatross. Thanks to Coleridge. What was he? High? ____Oh, yeah. I guess he was. Now I would never do anything like that, mind you. ____Quiet, you back there. I’m trying to sink. ____Better let it out, then. ____We need more colors down here. We’re tired of it always being blue. ____That’s the request? ____Sure. ____Cool. Thanks. ____People need this stuff flung at them in big chunks. Just to awaken them. ____Uh... ____"Sorry. Just thinking out loud." Get it on Amazon.com (US) as paperback or on Kindle; France, Germany, UK, Canada, and Japan p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 16.0px; font: 14.0px 'Times New Roman'; color: #333233} Try before you buy, or just buy the full ebook at Smashwords Barnes & Noble Powells Australians can get it at Booktopia Bookadda in India |
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