So while Distant Worlds and Distant Realms were the first titles to be commissioned under the Library’s F&SF imprint (now to be split into two separate imprints, have I mentioned?), the first anthology to actually release is a collection of SF humour, under the cover-your-mouth-and-snicker title of “Probing Uranus”. Edited by Stephanie Kincaid and Tonia Brown, if you like SF and you like to laugh, this collection is worth your time. Here’s the cover copy, the table of contents and the front cover art.
The aliens, time travelers, genetically altered life forms, and a host of other bizarre beings have landed, and they all have one objective: to make you laugh.
Collected in Probing Uranus are fourteen science fiction stories that range from the darkly humorous to the outrageous and zany. The strange and wonderful things you’ll encounter include an interstellar missionary, a plumber whose job is more complicated than you can imagine, two alien queens with some rather bawdy linguistic problems, and more mayhem than you can shake a mutant pumpkin at.
Prepare to be probed!
The Rectangle in Lewis J. Stanley’s Bells – Bill Thobaben
Judd Falcon, Missionary to the Stars – Ben Langhinrichs
Intergalactic Nuisance – Frank Dutkiewicz
They Keep Stealing my Things – Margaret Karmazin
On-Ramp – Tony Schaab
Dick Spigott, Interplanetary Plumber – H.F. Gibbard
Declination – Gus Ginsberg
A Beauty – Douglas Hutcheson
A Face Worse than Death – Sheila Crosby
Tangent – Ed Dempster
Red Vs. the Bug People – Stephanie Kincaid
The Continuing Adventures of Agent Jonas Maxwell, Intergalactic Security Agency: “The Fortress of Evil” – Jason R. Richter
The Wage of Dinosaurs – Cody Goodfellow
Head Games – Tonia Brown
