{"product_id":"home-on-derange-paperback","title":"Home On Derange - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDavid Gerrold\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI suppose you're entitled to a warning.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNone of these stories are meant to be taken seriously.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSometimes I sit down at the keyboard and the sentences just start rolling out. I rarely know what's going to happen next. I sit, appalled, watching the bizarre progression of character, incident, and idea that assemble on the computer screen. It astonishes me to see how the most sparkling of sentences can contain no real semblance of appropriate social decorum.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNevertheless, every story in this collection has been purchased by an editor who probably should have known better.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeveral of these stories were submitted (and sold) to the magazines. Others came into existence because some desperate anthologist offered me money and I was foolish enough to take on the challenge. Maybe it was the excitement of the idea, or maybe I didn't have anything else to do that week-but it was probably the money.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI make no apologies, I make no excuses. These stories are best consumed in small doses-like maybe when you need something to read while sitting on the toilet. I do not recommend trying to work through this collection the same way you would read any other book, turning pages to see what happens next. On the contrary, I suggest restraint, proceeding through the pages carefully and with a justifiable mixture of caution and dread.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo be fair, a couple of these stories are here because they are funny.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe rest of them are here because they refused to lie quietly in the drawer. They escaped. They crawled out of their file folders and demanded to be included without any regard to their obvious lack of substance. Those stories-the ones that I am embarrassed to admit authoring-should be obvious. Please do not encourage them by laughing out loud, or even smiling in their presence. They do not deserve even that much acknowledgment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf there is any kind of theme to this collection, it is that all of these stories have little or no redeeming social value. They were written as an explosion of peripatetic fragments in a delirious attempt at satire-except for a couple that were written for cathartic revenge on things (or people) that annoyed me.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere are thirty stories in this collection, nearly 120,000 words. Some of these tales might be worth your time. Others might be unforgivable stinkers, meriting only of an angry trajectory at the nearest brick wall-but which stories fit into which categories will be a subjective experience for every reader.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut let me put it this way-I suffered for my art. Now it's your turn.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIncluding: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Great Pan American Airship Mystery Or Why I Murdered Robert Benchley\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eActual Comments From Lunar Tourists\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfternoon With A Dead Bus\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Baby Cooper Dollar Bill\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Fabulous Marble\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCrystallization\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Kennedy Enterprise\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Shaggy Dog Story\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Honker Sting\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Trouble With Hairy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Killing Croak\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Ghost Of Christmas Sideways\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFranz Kafka, Superhero\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough Time And Space With Ferdinand Feghoot\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Spell\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Schwarzchild Radius\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Brief Explanation Of How Budapest Became The Taco Capital Of The World\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo Meditations On King Kong\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy There Are No Type C Civilizations (with Marvin Minsky)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Feathered Mastodon\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eF\u0026amp;SF Mailbag\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Strange Death Of Orson Welles\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichael Thinks The House Is Haunted\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Fabtastic Four\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDangerous Virgins\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Great Milo\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Old Science Fiction Writer\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen The \"Martians\" Returned\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollow The Other Brick Road\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Mild Case Of Death\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Shadows Of Alexandrium\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 274\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.58 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 21, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42731872223295,"sku":"9781958482032","price":30.22,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/324a616da1d79ffe87762add8a1f4804.webp?v=1765130429","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/home-on-derange-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}