Primordial Chili and Other Impossible Treats
by Tom Gerencer
54 minutes, 33 seconds
Unabridged SF Story Collection
1999-2002
"Brilliant. 'Primordial Chili' is as delightful a debut story as I can recall."
"All four are delightfully bizarre, and are read nicely by Gerencer. His comic timing is spot-on, and his authorial voice is so distinct that when I later read a story by him in hardcopy, I could almost hear his voice in my head."
Four short science fiction and fantasy stories, read by the author.
Primordial Chili
Have you ever had one of those days when everything just seems to go ? right? Even when it's wrong? "Primordial Chili" is a laugh-out-loud thrill-ride of culinary perfection, taken to cosmic proportions. The planets align, the gods speak, and supper turns out pretty good, too. First published in Science Fiction Age Magazine.
A Taste of Damsel
Anyone can slay a dragon. Well, provided they are dragonslayers, which Colson isn't. But even clerks from copy shops can have heroic qualities and even the very, very old can learn new tricks. First published in Realms of Fantasy Magazine.
Demo Mode
In the future, schools will be outdated and we'll all have knowledge grafted straight into our heads. Just make sure they configure the innoculotron correctly, or you might wind up contracting Esperanto by mistake! First published in Science Fiction Age Magazine.
Trailer Trash Savior
So the millennia have passed, and the time of the reckoning is once more nigh ... not to mention that you've got a busted velvet-Elvis and the oil heat isn't working. Find out what happens when the owner of a mullet and a used AMC Gremlin becomes "the chosen one," and has to battle demons, various and sundry. First published in Brutarian Magazine.
Categories: 2005 Release, 20th Century AD, 21st Century AD, 250 cents, 30-60 minutes, Fantasy, Fiction, Humor, SF Story, Science Fiction, Short Story, Speculative, The Longer Stuff, Tom Gerencer, Tom Gerencer (Reader)
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54 minutes, 33 seconds
Unabridged SF Story Collection
1999-2002
"Brilliant. 'Primordial Chili' is as delightful a debut story as I can recall."
--Mike Resnick
"All four are delightfully bizarre, and are read nicely by Gerencer. His comic timing is spot-on, and his authorial voice is so distinct that when I later read a story by him in hardcopy, I could almost hear his voice in my head."
--John Joseph Adams, Locus
Four short science fiction and fantasy stories, read by the author.
Primordial Chili
Have you ever had one of those days when everything just seems to go ? right? Even when it's wrong? "Primordial Chili" is a laugh-out-loud thrill-ride of culinary perfection, taken to cosmic proportions. The planets align, the gods speak, and supper turns out pretty good, too. First published in Science Fiction Age Magazine.
A Taste of Damsel
Anyone can slay a dragon. Well, provided they are dragonslayers, which Colson isn't. But even clerks from copy shops can have heroic qualities and even the very, very old can learn new tricks. First published in Realms of Fantasy Magazine.
Demo Mode
In the future, schools will be outdated and we'll all have knowledge grafted straight into our heads. Just make sure they configure the innoculotron correctly, or you might wind up contracting Esperanto by mistake! First published in Science Fiction Age Magazine.
Trailer Trash Savior
So the millennia have passed, and the time of the reckoning is once more nigh ... not to mention that you've got a busted velvet-Elvis and the oil heat isn't working. Find out what happens when the owner of a mullet and a used AMC Gremlin becomes "the chosen one," and has to battle demons, various and sundry. First published in Brutarian Magazine.
Categories: 2005 Release, 20th Century AD, 21st Century AD, 250 cents, 30-60 minutes, Fantasy, Fiction, Humor, SF Story, Science Fiction, Short Story, Speculative, The Longer Stuff, Tom Gerencer, Tom Gerencer (Reader)
It's true that you have to write a million words of crap before you write one good one. Tom Gerencer started writing when he was ten and didn't write his first good word until somewhere around 1997. It was "cucumber," he remembers, and he was exceedingly proud of it. He sent it off to Gordon Van Gelder at F&SF, who said he liked the word, but thought it needed more work before it could see print. Encouraged, Tom redoubled his efforts, but it was some time before he would write another good word, and for the next three years he just kept writing "ostrich." Tom lives in Maine, but doesn't feel comfortable writing anywhere other than Parmus, New Jersey. You can buy reprinted versions of his stories at Fictionwise or visit him on the web at his website [new windows]
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