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Witpunk, an edgy collection of sardonic fiction, was inspired when someone asked on an Internet literary forum, "When did reading SF/fantasy stop being fun?" Claude Lalumière, a popular Canadian author and columnist, took exception to this and, along with editor Marty Halpern, put together an anthology of some of the best works of satirical fiction in the last two decades.

While some of the stories are speculative classics, like Robert Silverberg's "Amanda and the Alien," Pat Cadigan's "Mother's Milk," and Nina Kiriki Hoffman's "Savage Breasts," half the collection is made up of never-before-published works by some of the brightest authors in contemporary science fiction and fantasy, including Paul Di Filippo, Allen M. Steele, Bradley Denton, and Pat Murphy.

Included are stories about a science fiction writer gone temporarily insane, a post#150;global warming society where infertile infants are killed by priests in the name of God, a boy's friendship with a turkey, demonic light bulbs, and a secretary with lethal weapons under her sweater -- to name but a few.

The back of Witpunk says it all: "When the world is just too stupid, brutal, or annoying to believe -- strike back by laughing at it." This diverse collection of stories, which ranges from witty science fiction to black-humored horror to just plain bizarre fantasy, is a typical Four Walls Eight Windows offering: highly intelligent, brilliantly clever stories with that unique mix of style, irreverence, and attitude. Those afflicted with a twisted sense of humor will cherish this collection for a long, long time.

Paul Goat Allen

Table of Contents:

• Preface - essay by Marty Halpern and Claude Lalumière
• The Teb Hunter - short story by Allen Steele
• Coyote Goes Hollywood - short story by Ernest Hogan
• Spicy Detective #3 - (2002) - short story by Jeffrey Ford
• Auspicious Eggs - (2000) - novelette by James Morrow
• Timmy and Tommy's Thanksgiving Secret - short story by Bradley Denton
• Savage Breasts - (1988) - short story by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
• I Love Paree - (2000) - novelette by Cory Doctorow and Michael Skeet
• Arabesques of Eldritch Weirdness #8 - (2002) - short story by Jeffrey Ford
• The Seven-Day Itch - short story by Elise Moser
• The Scuttling or, Down by the Sea with Marvin and Pamela - (1999) - novelette by William Sanders
• A Halloween Like Any Other - short story by Michael Arsenault
• The Lights of Armageddon - (1994) - short story by William Browning Spencer
• Doc Aggressive, Man of Tin #2 - (2002) - short story by Jeffrey Ford
• Bagged 'n' Tagged - (1995) - short story by Eugene Byrne
• Amanda and the Alien - (1983) - short story by Robert Silverberg
• Diary from an Empty Studio - short story by Don Webb
• Is That Hard Science, or Are You Just Happy to See Me? - short story by Leslie What
• Six Gun Loner of the High Butte #6 - (2002) - short story by Jeffrey Ford
• Encounter of Another Kind - (1991) - short story by David Langford
• Tales from the Breast - (1996) - short story by Hiromi Goto
• Science Fiction - novelette by Paul Di Filippo
• Mother's Milt - (1992) - short story by Pat Cadigan
• Deep Space Adventure #32 - (2002) - short story by Jeffrey Ford
• The Wild Girls - short story by Pat Murphy
• Jumping - short story by Ray Vukcevich
• Kapuzine and the Wolf: A Hortatory Tale - short story by Yves Meynard and Jean-Louis Trudel
• Meet the Witpunks - essay by Marty Halpern and Claude Lalumière

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