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Kafka's Uncle and Other Strange Tales
by Bruce Taylor

An alternate universe? A different dimension? The "id" of America? Meet Anslenot and his tormentor/confidant, a giant tarantula, as they wander through a blasted and desecrated landscape of broken ideals and shattered hopes. In this place, nothing is right. The Militant Lambs fight with the Opposition, and no one knows whose side who is on. Add to that Martians... Venusians... Elvis...! To top it off, Anslenot is hounded by his dysfunctional family and upbringing... and legendary surrealist Franz Kafka makes Anslenot his honorary uncle. Nightmarish, strange, bizarre--the way things are to be? Or the way things-- really are?

Also included in this collection is the novella The Humphrey Bogart Blues, a sympathetic look at Marilyn Monroe, who had she just been able to hook up with the Martians...

“It’s important to realize that Bruce’s stories are not strange; the world is, and he’s separated himself from it in order to show us new realities, with remarkable clarity and insight. I am one of his admirers, and I am not alone.”
—Brian Herbert, New York Times best-selling author, nominated for the Hugo Award, and co-author with Kevin J. Anderson of the recent books in the Dune series

“Bruce Taylor’s writing is always unexpected, even extraordinary. He certainly earns his title of ‘Mr. Magic Realism.’”
—Kevin J. Anderson, author of Scattered Suns and other New York Times bestsellers

Bruce Taylor, known as "Mr. Magic Realism," was born in 1947 in Seattle, Washington, where he currently lives. He was a student at the Clarion West Science Fiction/Fantasy writing program at the University of Washington, where he studied under such writers as Robert Silverberg, Harlan Ellison, Ursula LeGuin, and Frank Herbert. His works have been published in Talebones, On Spec, New Dimensions, and The Twilight Zone. His first novel, The Final Trick of Funnyman and Other Stories is available from Fairwood Press. He has been working on a book with Brian Herbert, son of Frank Herbert of Dune fame, titled Stormworld, on the topic of global warming. He has several other books in the works, including a sequel to Kafka's Uncle, titled Kafka's Uncle: The Unfortunate Sequel — Anslenot in Ruptureland. When not writing, Bruce is either working as a hypnotherapist or can be found in the loft of his vast condo, awestruck at his smashing view of Mt. Rainier, with his "mews" Purrrzac.