More Stories About Spaceships and Cancer

Join Professor Badbones and his sidekick/nemesis, Stiffany, as they spin some weird ungodly tales of friendly neighborhood banks, large-breasted ninjas, hopeless haberdashers and sex fantasies at work.Prepare to enter a strange Mixtopia - "A mix between a utopia and a dystopia where some things are unbelievably better while simultaneously other things are hellishly worse, e.g. “The warm slappable realness of this sexbot’s thighs almost distracts me from the painful sickness I have from this radioactive corn."Yeah. It's like that.Though these stories plop down comfortably into the bizarro/absurdist category - whacked out, disgusting and of course, funny as hell, two of them managed to break my rock-hard heart. In one, an extremely old fart is urged to give up life as he knows it and have his brain placed in permanent virtual reality. Then we have Sneezy, an unfairly underrated dwarf, confessing to a mad love/lust for Snow White. After she is placed in a glass casket suffering from a witch-induced coma, he tries desperately to rouse her before that pesky prince shows up. I was practically in tears as he kissed her again and again to no avail. Sob!In the not heart breaking but thoroughly entertaining category, we have a man who can't get laid...even though he's the last man on earth. Then there's the guy who finds that being marooned on an island with 37 cheerleaders - "Their clothes are ripped in sort of a sexy post-apocalyptic way." - is not all it's cracked up to be. And let's not forget what happened to the poor gentleman who didn't follow directions and drank the WHOLE BOTTLE of love potion, not the recommended amount of one capful.These twisted tales are not for everyone. The author is fairly obsessed with bodily functions. Almost no one is presented with flowers and chocolates. Gross stuff happens.But if you're looking for cheap thrills and have always wondered what would happen if you didn't have to poop anymore, baby, this is the book for you!

I bought this as I am a fan of "Too Many Cooks." It's a pretty quick read with a couple decent laughs.

Didn't remember reading it when I saw the title. Had to open the order to remember, that should tell you something.

This book looked intriguing as I searched for new things to read, but when I learned it was by the guy who did TOO MANY COOKS, I had to own it. This book shows that that piece of televised genius was not just a fluke. This book is easily one of my favorites now. It's also not really a collection of short stories, it's a whole piece that should be read as such. If William S. Burroughs and Mark Amerika get to have their collections of unrelated short stories billed as novels, Casper Kelly needs to have his unified work of art billed as such, too. Not entirely tangentially, I've seen mention of the Bizarro genre, but MORE STORIES ABOUT SPACESHIPS AND CANCER is miles above any of the juvenile outpourings of anyone in that field. This book firmly puts Casper Kelly in that group of playful postmodern masters, the likes of Barthelme (as mentioned on the back cover), Barth, Pynchon, Nabokov, Vonnegut, et al. High praise, sure, and maybe he won't ultimately live up to it, but I'd be surprised if that were the case.Of the contents, I only felt one piece was lesser, and not because it's not good, but because its themes were more successfully explored by two other pieces. Try to avoid finding out anything more than the basics, though, not for plot spoiler reasons so much as to be able to enjoy the playful surprises as they come. It's not a groundbreaking, earth shattering explosion - so few things are. But it does herald the arrival of a major creator, and I'm eager for more of his output. His work with others, like most of his work with [adult swim], is good, but not as strong as his solo efforts to date. I'm hoping MORE STORIES ABOUT SPACESHIPS AND CANCER achieves its writer the success he deserves and the ability to create more.

With More Stories, Mr. Kelly intertwines the mundane everyday thoughts many of us have with his own odd, and sometimes outlandish, brainstorms to deliver some hilarious stories. You will laugh alound while also recognizing some of that awkwardness you perhaps feel about your own life. The humor appeals on multiple levels from crudeness to scat to intellectual. You can read this in about the same amount of time it takes to watch a movie, and you'll enjoy it more-- unless you're just one of those people who does not like to read, in which case you should not even be reading this.

Very entertaining. And creative. Entertainingly creative. Creatively entertaining, too. Lots of interesting wordplay, some almost sexy parts, but not enough spaceships.

Highly recommend this book to anyone in their twenties or thirties. It reads well for a teen also but I think it resonates more with younger adults.

You have to come into this book realizing it is going to be off the wall and strange at times. But if you like that this book is perfect and is going to make you laugh. I solidly recommend giving it a try.

Fantastic book of hilarious and well written short stories, well worth the read!

I buzzed through this In a day and laughed out loud at some point in almost every story. I hope Kelly keeps writing. my only complaint is that it was over too fast.

I came to this after seeing Kelly's wonderful viral video 'Too Many Cooks' and enjoyed it enormously. It's a collection of short stories, which I guess you would call science fiction, but that label isn't particularly helpful. The stories are all extremely funny and inventive, surreal but engaging. Think Philip K Dick (but funnier) or Kurt Vonnegut or David Wong. I loved it.

One of my favourite dudes wrote one of my new favourite books. Simple.There's some stories about sex in there too.Erotic.

Amazing.