Extreme Dentistry

Open wide... and pray for your life.Middle-aged, middle-income and lapsed Mormon Arthur Percy feels his life lurch from a difficult normality onto the rails of a carnival ride heading somewhere too much like the Twilight Zone for his liking. Perhaps it is more the “Anti-Twilight Zone” that Arthur enters—where vampires, shape shifters and ghouls are not gorgeous or glamorous but genetic parasites from a hideous communal intelligence known as the Hive. Who will save the human race? And what does all this have to do with Dr. Calvin Stewart, Arthur’s new dentist?Aurora Award-nominated author Hugh A. D. Spencer weaves a hilarious tale of sarcasm, Mormonism, and oral hygiene that spans the globe. From Singapore to Germany and back to Toronto, Extreme Dentistry explores love and loss, terrible workplaces, babysitting, and those seediest centres of monstrous activity both human and inhuman—shopping malls.“Spencer stacks it with so many odd elements that it all works. Well worth searching out.” ~ Toronto Star“Extreme Dentistry is very funny and quite horrific.” ~ Amazing Stories“A dark and mordantly funny satire.” ~ Armed and Dangerous“Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy vibe.” ~ Read, Play, Review

About the Author

Hugh A.D. Spencer completed graduate studies at the University of Toronto and McMaster University where he conducted anthropological studies into the origins of religious movements in science fiction fandom. Twice nominated for Canada's Aurora Award, Hugh's science fiction has been published in On Spec, Tesseracts 8, 11 and 6, Interzone, Descant and New Writings in the Fantastic. Many of his short stories have been dramatized by Shoestring Radio Theatre for the Satellite Network of National Public Radio. His most recent short stories are "Five Stories About Alan" which was published in Dandelions of Mars: A Tribute to Ray Bradbury and "John, Paul, Xavier, Ironside & George (but not Vincent)" which was published in the new Ominous Realities anthology. Hugh is also President and Senior Consultant of the cultural consulting company Museum Planning Partners. He worked on the Ontario Prehistory and Canadian Ethnology galleries at the Royal Ontario Museum and has travelled to Asia, Europe, Australia and throughout North America on assignment for many different museum, art gallery, science centre and world's fair projects. Even with all this travel, he always happy to return to his home in the aging suburbs of Toronto which he shares with his family, friends and two dogs.

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