Read a Q&A with Patrick Lenton over at Booktopia | Sexy Tales of Paleontology
"For some reason, every thought and feeling I’ve had about romance and the cataclysmic ending of it, is best told through the medium of robots and aliens and stuff."
Read a Q&A with Sexy Tales of Paleontology author Patrick Lenton over at Booktopia.
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.
👄 “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)
💥 But wait! There’s more!
Swoop up a sweet $10 discount on Patrick Lenton's debut collection, A Man Made Entirely of Bats over at Spineless Wonders. Grab your copy here and get your sexy Subbed In price of $17.99 using the coupon code KHMW3EWK at the checkout. Available until 31 August.
And in case you missed our launch video for Sexy Tales of Paleontology, you can watch it over at Subbed In's Instagram.
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.
Praise for Patrick Lenton:
‘Wonderful, infectious and genuinely hilarious. Patrick Lenton is the Cormac McCarthy of being a huge idiot.’ - Ben Jenkins (Story Club, Dragon Friends, The Checkout)
‘Patrick’s writing inspires something unusual in me: the desire to hear men tell me stories.’ - Rebecca Shaw (No To Feminism, Get Krack!n, Tonightly)
‘Like Sedaris, Lenton is hugely entertaining, which renders occasional moments of emotional tenderness all the more poignant.’ - Books+Publishing
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