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Step Away from the Pizza

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Pub Date 5 Aug 2025 | Archive Date 24 Aug 2025

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Description

A new form of life based on plastic takes the world by storm. A corporate takeover of a Velcro-themed roadside attraction creates a literal firestorm. A cryptic poem and its quirky critics lead to a murder mystery. A teenage girl is caught in a tangle of commercial products and a friend's suicide threat. A father wrestles with his addiction to 3D porn, his daughter's bizarre illness, and his deceased wife's Embodied Conversational Interface Agent. A prose poem about an abused woman is carved from the script of Beckett's Waiting for Godot.


This breakout collection from the author of the cult classic, postmodern novel Figurski at Findhorn on Acid stretches the bounds of short fiction with edgy humor, zany characters, and ingenious formal experimentation. Twenty-four eclectic stories are punctuated by an anagrammatic playlet, computer-generated sonnets, and a slideshow fiction. Step Away from the Pizza showcases the wide-ranging imagination, inventiveness, and mixture of high and popular culture that made critics rave about Figurski and will leave you wishing for more.


A new form of life based on plastic takes the world by storm. A corporate takeover of a Velcro-themed roadside attraction creates a literal firestorm. A cryptic poem and its quirky critics lead to a...


Advance Praise

PRAISE FOR FIGURSKI AT FINDHORN ON ACID:

"One of the most unique and quirky interactive novels of the early 21st century."

—Dene Grigar, PhD, Director of the Electronic Literature Lab

"Funny, crazy, ultra-postmodern satire."

—Mariusz Pisarski, hypertext scholar, translator, and publisher

"Belongs in the tradition of screwball comedy, but it raises that tradition to the level of metaphysics—a cross between Borges and the Marx Brothers."

—Michael Tratner, author of Modernism and Mass Politics; Deficits and Desires; and Crowd Scenes

"Blurs the boundaries between fiction and reality."

—Dr. Chelsea Miya, University of Guelph, Ontario

"A comic, frantic narrative that recalls Monty Python in its absurdity and erudition."

—Mark Bernstein, Eastgate Systems

"Trippy epic built with mathematical precision and profound insight into the psyches and odysseys of a murdering grad-student-ex-con, a matryoshkan cross-dressing international spy, and a paralympian-level Vietnamese cup-juggler."

—Bill Bly, author of We Descend

"Magic in the lasting, a rubbery kind of elastic stretched to the limit of the funny bone."

—Rob Swigart, author of Little America and Mixed Harvest

“Whoa . . . Wow . . . . Hmmph.”

— Frank "Many Pens" Figurski, at Findhorn, on Acid


PRAISE FOR FIGURSKI AT FINDHORN ON ACID:

"One of the most unique and quirky interactive novels of the early 21st century."

—Dene Grigar, PhD, Director of the Electronic Literature Lab

"Funny...


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EDITION Ebook
ISBN 9798999004222
PRICE US$7.49 (USD)
PAGES 300

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