Mustard Seed: A Thystopian Satire, Book 3 - Couverture souple

Strelich, Tom

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1685137792 ISBN 13 : 9781685137793

Editeur : Black Rose Writing, 2026

Synopsis

"Tom Strelich is a magician. In Mustard Seed, he channels Kurt Vonnegut, Joseph Heller, and Richard Brautigan to create something entirely his own... Strelich has taken that absurdist torch and carried it forward." -Haris Orkin, bestselling author of the James Flynn Escapades

End of the world? No. Maybe later.

Mr. Frostie is just a baby when his parents move, along with almost a thousand others, into the top-secret Mustard Seed time capsule. The move is occasioned by the mistaken belief that JFK's assassination puts WWIII in the thermonuclear starting blocks.

In Mustard Seed they discover a massive underground complex stretching through miles of ancient lava tubes, and Mister Frostie grows up in a familiar, almost mythical mid-century small town with parks and stores and movie theatres and schools, even a miniature golf course. It's a time capsule full of people meant to preserve a tiny seed of the human experiment-just in case the human experiment blows up in the lab.

But when a teenage Mister Frostie is banished to face certain death in the radioactive-zombie-mutant-cannibal hellscape above, he learns the surface world isn't a hellscape at all but has been wobbling on above their heads the whole time. He makes it his mission to bring the people of the duck-and-cover civilization up and into the glorious, mystifying, and often dismaying world above. What could possibly go wrong?

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Strelich was born into a family of professional wrestlers and raised in Bakersfield, California. His writing career began on a dare from a theatre director, which worked out well since he wasn't a very good actor anyway. His plays have since garnered awards and New York premieres. Not content to fit the norm, for anything, he's a bagpiper, the pipe major for the Santa Barbara Pipe & Drum Corps-and he's not even Scottish. He's Mexican and Croatian, but the bagpipes are the only instrument that comes complete with a costume and an attitude, so it's kind of perfect for him. He's trying to learn the accordion, so if he learns the banjo after that, he'll have the trifecta of the most annoying musical instruments. In his spare time, he's also a search and rescue pilot.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Black Rose Writing
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1685137792
• ISBN 13: 9781685137793
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 249
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