Sexy Tales of Paleontology

by Patrick Lenton

Overview

A pile of rats having an identity crisis. A sexy robot rebellion. A velociraptor revenge wedding. The world's horniest scientist. Enter 'Sexy Tales of Paleontology': a world of queer romance, (dis)connection, and artifical intelligence told with Patrick Lenton's idiosyncratic bizarreness and heart. Lenton's short stories combine laugh-out-loud humour with an honest-to-goodness sensibility. Sci-fi oddities, pop culture, a lesser-known Kardashian who lives on the moon, and a deft turn of comic absurdity bound through this truly queer romp of a book. But beyond all this, at the beating heart of the book, is the foolishness, horror, and delight that is love and heartbreak and 43 rats.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780645152449
Publisher:	Subbed in
Publication date:	07/26/2021
Pages:	278
Sales rank:	694,111
Product dimensions:	4.25(w) x 7.00(h) x 0.63(d)

About the Author

Patrick Lenton is an author and journalist from Melbourne. He is the author of A Man Made Entirely of Bats (Spineless Wonders), collection of essays Uncle Hercules and Other Lies (Subbed In), and full-length collection of short stories Sexy Tales of Paleontology (Subbed In). His writing has been featured in The Best Australian Stories, The Best Australian Comedy Writing, Growing Up Queer In Australia, and journals like Kill Your Darlings, Going Down Swinging, Scum Magazine, and more. He is the Editor of pop-culture, news, and entertainment website Junkee and has written journalism and non-fiction for publications including The Guardian, Sydney Morning Herald, VICE, and more.

Table of Contents

43 rats

The Doctors Murphy

The man who shot the moon

That's chess, baby

Home is where the dad is

A letter from a dying soldier to his sweetheart who he had never fulfilled sexually

Beach bodies

Control variable

Untold tales of kindness and charity

The Dog Park

Egg

Farewell, Stars Hollow

Jim Kardashian

Homing pigeon

The Anniversary

Jimmy and the Killbot

The good boy below

The Little Crane

Together

Sexy tales of paleontology

Boatjack I

Boatjack II

Boatjack III

Editorial Reviews

"Lenton has an imagination like dropped pudding - delicious, and a crime to waste it. This collection is wicked, witty and only occasionally horny. Here Lenton writes with enviable verve around the intersection of science, inhumanity and the clarifying force of love. It is a book teeming with life and brilliance and I am very mad that I did not write it." - Rick Morton (One Hundred Years of Dirt, My Year of Living Vulnerably)

"Patrick Lenton is a hot little piece of ass, and his book is a hot little piece of ass (for the mind)." - Nina Oyama (Utopia, The Weekly)

"Wildly inventive, refreshingly bonkers. I verify this attempt at humour by this human male." - Julie Koh (Portable Curiosities)

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