Hugh A. D. Spencer’s weird, wonderful, side-splitting short fiction has been delighting audiences for over 25 years. His stories have been published in a variety of magazines and anthologies and broadcast on National Public Radio satellite networks. Now collected together for the first time, Why I Hunt Flying Saucers And Other Fantasticals contains thirteen of his best-loved stories, along with all-new introductions by the author.

Malfunctioning household robots, an endless apocalyptic loop, potash-fuelled interstellar travel, and more—these stories stretch science fiction to its limit and bring it into our backyards at the same time.

Includes the Aurora Award-nominated story “Why I Hunt Flying Saucers”!

Foreword by Dr. John Colarusso, Professor of Linguistics, McMaster University

Stories in this collection

Why I Hunt Flying Saucers

Icarus Down/Bear Rising

The Triage Conference

The Robot Reality Check

Strategic Dog Patterning

The Z-Burger Simulations

Mormonism and the Saskatoon Space Programme

Pornzilla

The Hospital for Sick Robots

Problem Project

A 21st Century Scientific Romance

When Bloomsbury Fails

(Coping With) Norm Deviation