Rescheduled: 'Sexy Tales of Paleontology' Naarm (Melbourne) launch
Attention friends and fiends in Birraranga/Naarm (Melbourne). Due to the plague, the book launch event for Patrick Lenton's Sexy Tales of Paleontology has been rescheduled for Thursday 26 August at Brunswick Bound. Come through! RSVP by emailing ellen@brunswickbound.com.au
When:
Thursday 26 August 2021, 6:30PM–8PM
Where:
Brunswick Bound
361 Sydney Rd, Brunswick VIC 3056
Entry:
FREE
Bookings essential:
RSVP by emailing: ellen@brunswickbound.com.au
Why:
A pile of rats having an identity crisis. A sexy robot rebellion. A velociraptor revenge wedding. The world's horniest scientist. In Sexy Tales of Paleontology, Patrick Lenton explores a world of queer romance, (dis)connection, and artifical intelligence with idiosyncratic bizarreness and heart. We can’t wait to launch Sexy Tales of Paleontology into the world.
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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.
Praise for Sexy Tales of Paleontology:
“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)
💥 Shortlisted: 2023 Russell Prize for Humour Writing >
💥 Shortlisted: 2022 Small Press Network Book of the Year Award >
💥 Read an egg-cerpt over at Aniko Press >
💥 Read an interview with Patrick over at Booktopia >
💥 Read a review over at Aniko Press >
Release date: 26 July 2021.
First edition. Perfect bound. 280 pages.
ISBN 9780645152449 (paperback)
ISBN 9780645152470 (eBook)