Meet Me in the Moon Room
* Philip K. Dick Award finalist (2002)
* Locus Recommended Reading
Here are 33 weird, wonderful stories concerning men, women, teleportation, wind-up cats, and brown paper bags. By turns whimsical and unsettling — frequently managing to be both — these short fictions describe family relationships, bad breakups, and travel to outer space.
Vukcevich's loopy, fun-house mirror take on everyday life belongs to the same absurdist school of work as that of George Saunders, David Sedaris, Ken Kalfus, and Victor Pelevin, although there is no one quite like him. Try one of these stories, it won't take you long, but it will turn your head inside out.
Contents:
- By the Time We Get to Uranus
- The Barber's Theme
- Beatnicks with Banjoes
- Finally Fruit
- Pretending
- Mom's Little Friends
- No Comet
- There is Danger
- Pink Smoke
- Season Finale
- The Sweater
- Home Remedy
- A Breath-Holding Contest
- Fancy Pants
- In the Refrigerator
- The Perfect Gift
- Message in a Fish
- Catch
- The Finger
- Rejoice
- My Mustache
- We Kill a Bicycle
- A Holiday Junket
- Giant Step
- Quite Contrary
- Doing Time
- The Next Best Thing
- Beastly Heat
- Ceremony
- Poop
- White Guys in Space
- Whisper
- Meet Me in the Moon Room
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Ray Vukcevich
Ray Vukcevich (born 1946) is a writer of fantasy and literary fiction. His loopy, sometimes surreal stories have been compared to the works of R. A. Lafferty, George Saunders, and David Sedaris. Some seventy-five stories, with titles such as "White Guys in Space," have appeared in science fiction and literary magazines. His online novelette The Wages of Syntax was on the Nebula Award final ballot.
Vukcevich's novel The Man of Maybe Half a Dozen Faces was published by Minotaur Books in 2000. A collection of short stories — Meet Me in the Moon Room — was published in 2001 by Small Beer Press.
Originally from Arizona, he now lives in Eugene, Oregon. He is a member of the Wordos writers' group.
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