The Science of Lost Futures

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The Science of Lost Futures is a prize-winning collection full of quirky humor and intelligent absurdity. Ryan Habermeyer is a yarn spinner of the first order. Drawing on urban legends, internet hoaxes, and ancient medical folklore, these stories go beyond science fiction and magical realism to create a captivating collection of fabulist stories that revel in the alien and the absurd.

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If the Brothers Grimm wrote today, they might turn out something like this imaginative collection, Habermeyer's debut. --Publishers Weekly

Author Bio

Ryan Habermeyer was born and raised in Los Angeles. He earned his MFA from the University of Massachusetts and his PhD at the University of Missouri. His work has appeared most recently in Cream City Review, Carolina Quarterly, Los Angeles Review, and Chattahoochee Review. He lives with his wife and children on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, where he is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Salisbury University