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And the Monkey Learned Nothing contains author Tom Lutz’s reports from fifty countries, most describing personal encounters in rarely visited spots, anecdotes from way off the beaten path. Traveling without an itinerary or goal, Lutz falls regularly, into the instant intimacy of the road with random strangers.
Of This New World offers a menagerie of utopias: real, imagined, and lost. Starting with the Garden of Eden and ending in a Mars colony, the stories wrestle with conflicts of idealism and practicality, communal ambition and individual kink.
An unmissable debut, the collection charts the worlds born in our dreams and bred in hope.
Publishers Weekly’s starred review says: “November Storm, winner of the Iowa Short Fiction Award, finds consistent success in its depictions of intimate relationships. Robert Oldshue’s sturdy prose and potent, understated endings will satisfy fans of the classic short story.”
Seventeen-year-old Chan’s ancestors left a dying Earth hundreds of years ago, in search of a new home. Generations later, they are still searching . . . Every day aboard the interstellar ship Australia is hell, where no one is safe. The Australia is filled with murderous gangs and twisted cults, vying for supremacy. Fierce and self-sufficient, Chan has learned to avoid the mayhem but then she makes an extraordinary discovery–there may be a way to return to Earth. But doing so will bring her to the attention of the murderers and fanatics, putting her and everyone she loves in danger.
