Super Flat Times - by Matthew Derby (Paperback)

About the Book

With a heightened sense of the boundless possibility and lurking doom that Orwell and Huxley once envisioned, Matthew Derbys stories provide a glimpse into an intricately imagined worlda world in which clouds are treated with behavioral serum, children are handicapped by their ability to float, and all food (including Popsicles) is made of meat. They parody our contemporary notions of family, government, and science with razor-sharp wit and explore the darkest of human longings with heartbreaking sincerity. The result: a book that is both a brilliant satire and an assault on the senses.

Book Synopsis

With a heightened sense of the boundless possibility and lurking doom that Orwell and Huxley once envisioned, Matthew Derby's stories provide a glimpse into an intricately imagined world: a world in which clouds are treated with behavioral serum, children are handicapped by their ability to float, and all food (including Popsicles) is made of meat.

Review Quotes

"Derby's zanily inventive fictional world will disarm you with its bleak humor, its dire and giddy sentences, its irrepressible sense of wonder, its urgent narrative force. Prepare to laugh, to be uplifiled, to be a tiny bit ruined."

"Imagine The Matrix, but funny, or a neurotic Metropolis, and you might get some sense of what this weird, beautifully written book, made by someone who has watched far too much television, does to your brain."

"Matthew Derby's writing is a refreshing shock to the system. Read it and be entranced, enchanted, and transported. He is truly one of a kind."