![]() ![]() ![]() Okay kids, first things first: leave logic at the door and prepare to have your mind twisted and turned inside out. And since Sturgeon’s law says 90% of everything is crap anyway, I went into reading this with a completely open mind. If it’s as weird as possible, it may not be as entertaining as possible, amirite? Well, I guess it’s all a matter of taste. Sometimes those two things are mutually exclusive. ![]() If I’m going to read a bunch of stories about mobster toasters and violent clockwork mice who turn people into cheese, damn it, I’m going to learn something in the process! So since time is finite, I went right to wiki, which had this to say: “Bizarro fiction is a contemporary literary genre, which often uses elements of absurdism, satire, and the grotesque, along with pop-surrealism and genre fiction staples, in order to create subversive works that are as weird and entertaining as possible.” As weird and entertaining as possible. I needed to familiarize myself with the bizarro genre to know what I was getting myself into. The fundamental question I set out to answer was this: Is there such a thing as carrying it too far in bizarro land?īeing the ultimate nerd that I am, I decided to do a little homework before reading this anthology. ![]() Walruses talk, trees bear kitten fruit, crabgrass contains real crabs, and motels are made of flesh. ![]()
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