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Satire Dystopia Weird Tales of Gods, Dinosaurs and Chaos
Paperback
Series: Dystopocon Anthologies, Book 2
Science FictionGeneral Fiction
Publisher: Toley Press
Published: Dec 8 2025
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Satire Dystopia: Weird Tales of Gods, Dinosaurs, and Chaos is a darkly funny sci fi humor anthology about monsters, empires, cryptids, theme parks, and corporations that are completely done with our nonsense.
This Dystopocon volume is a dark humor short story collection of seventeen humorous science fiction short stories and strange little worlds gone sideways. If you like your literary satire fiction with lasers, elder gods, stormtroopers, and HR memos, you're home.
Inside, a woman goes on a date while her six-foot anxiety cat critiques every move. A washed-up dinosaur comic works the late shift at Club Extinction. Death Star electrician cadets just want to pass their conduit exam and not get blown up by one bad exhaust port. A forgotten superhero watches his legacy get edited out of the Hall of Justice. A burnt-out cryptid researcher gets one last, unnerving email about Bigfoot. And somewhere in the North Atlantic, a tiny coalition of angry countries starts a cod-fueled revolution.
From theme parks run by elder gods to geopolitical fish wars and erased heroes, these satirical sci fi short stories mix cosmic horror, pop culture, and workplace misery into sharp, funny, sometimes uncomfortably honest tales. It's absurdist speculative fiction with feelings, written for readers who love Vonnegut, Saunders, Douglas Adams, and anyone else who weaponizes jokes against reality.
Underneath the monsters and memes, this is also political and social satire fiction about power, memory, and who gets written out of the story when the credits roll. The jokes land fast, the heartbreak sneaks up slower, and every punchline has teeth.
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