'Featuring outlandish and striking imagery throughout-a woman in love with an elephant, an orange that ruled the world-this collection is a surrealistic wonderland.' - Publishers Weeklyldquo;Urbane without being arch, sweet without being maudlin, mysterious without being cryptic.rdquo;-Cory Doctorow, Boing BoingA dazzling, postmodern debut collection of pulp and surreal fictions: a writer of alternate histories defends his patronrsquo;s zeppelin against assassins and pirates; a woman transforms into hundreds of gumballs; an emancipated childrenrsquo;s collective goes house hunting.Benjamin Rosenbaum rsquo;s stories have appeared in Asimovrsquo;s Science Fiction and McSweeneyrsquo;s , been translated into fourteen languages, and listed in The Best American Short Stories 2006 . Shortlisted for the Hugo and Nebula awards, Rosenbaumrsquo;s work has been reprinted in Harperrsquo;s and The Yearrsquo;s Best Science Fiction . He lives in Switzerland with his family.
