My Morning Glory and Other Flashes of Absurd Science Fiction

First published by the British science journal Nature in their Futures series of original one-page sci-fi stories, these three flash science fiction stories are collected in one volume for the first time.

In My Morning Glory a man finds that a helpful entity rules both he and his apartment. In Timed Release good housekeeping was never so compelling. In A Hard Man to Surprise man man discovers unexplained links between surprise and pleasure.

“I think Marusek could be the one sci- fi writer in a million with the potential to make an increasingly indifferent audience care about the genre again, and he could do it without compromising his voice or dumbing down his subject matter.” ~New York Times Book Review

“David Marusek, showing a potentially volatile synergy of technology and human foibles, is a writer who gives the impression that he’s been to the future, seen it work, and has come back to tell us all about it.” ~Locus