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Everything abridged, storie$, Dennard Dayle

eng

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fiction

Everything abridged

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Dennard Dayle

storie$

"Framed as a reference work of humorous "entries" that offer trenchant social commentary, Everything Abridged presages a dark vision of the near future but tells jokes in the face of it: An intelligence agency operative uncovers a conspiracy to generate conspiracies and realizes his participation in the scheme. A Caribbean monarch meets four decades of American presidents and adjusts his country's foreign policy accordingly. Experiment participants are asked to bring back a gun as quickly as possible. A copywriter on a space colony advertises a weapon with the potential to destroy his home during an intergalactic war. These and other linked stories, many of which feature a speculative bent--about being Black in America, law enforcement practices in an android society, Olympic speed walking, consumerism, nuclear war, and more--are interspersed with hilarious, one-line definitions for words ranging from abolition to zygote, creating a sharply humorous portrait of American inequality. With his singular wit, sharp prose, and shrewd observations, Dennard Dayle captures the struggles his characters face to keep hold of their sanity in a society collapsing into chaos and absurdity."--, Provided by publisher

Machine generated contents note:, A, Annotations, Apex Competitor, B, Bipolar Tendencies, C, Comments, D, Death Comedy Jam, E, F, Free Panels, G, H, Hell in an Inkwell, I, J, K, L, Liberty Points, M, N, No One Gets Shot, O, Own Goal, P, Post-Atomic Stress, Q, Question, R, Recent Activity, S, Space Glaive, T, U, Urban Market, The, V, W, Welcome, X, Y, Z

Everything abridged : stories