The Parasite From Proto Space & Other Stories

A Parasite from Proto Space summoning memory-eating worms? Funeral machines devouring teenagers? Cosmic voyages to Pleroma, and a frog baby that transcends time and space? These are just some of the things you'll find in this collection of stories by Brett Petersen: stories that will warp your reality until his mind becomes your world."Brett Petersen's The Parasite from Proto Space & Other Stories has been compared to the work of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick, Ursula Le Guin, and Charles Bukowski, among others. Suppose I told you that I not only agreed, but added Frank Herbert, Sam Delany, and Olaf Stapledon to that lustrous list, and added them after reading just the first two stories in Petersen's anthology. In the words of Ringo, would you stand up and walk out on me? If you did, that would be your loss. Petersen's way with words is superb, his dark imagination boundless, his eye for detail and logic in fleshing out these paranoid visions keen and impressive. If this sounds like your cup of tea, pick it up."--Paul Levinson, author of The Silk Code, Borrowed Tides, and The Plot to Save Socrates."A Confusion Wave beaming in from the farthest-out Far Out, scrambling up to unscramble our partially-scrambled minds."--Ben Loory, author of Tales of Falling and Flying."Petersen's stories are an acid-drenched, kaleidoscopic blend of genres reminiscent of Dick and Burroughs, but with their own unique breed of genius. The experience of reading The Parasite from Proto-Space and Other Stories is not unlike ingesting a powerful psychedelic--one that will leave a lasting impression of your psyche."--Brendan Vidito, author of Nightmares in Ecstasy."Reading The Parasite from Proto Space feels like you're on a footchase pursued by Mad Mr. Petersen himself. He's got a messenger bag full of creatures he spliced together in his basement workshop, and every time you think you're getting ahead, you turn around to check if he's still behind you and get smacked in the face by a 50-pound alien memory worm that needs you to validate its childhood trauma."--Charlene Elsby, author of Hexis."If George Bataille and Ray Bradbury had a baby, and that baby was GG Allin, and that GG Allin baby read Ursula Le Guin and Charles Bukowski in equal measure, and that now grown-up baby watched Beavis and Butt-Head reruns on summer afternoons, then we might approach describing the phantasmagoric mise-en-scènes Brett Peterson has put together here in this collection. The contact high one gets is contagious."--Daniel Nester, author of How to Be Inappropriate

Ben Loory, author of Tales of Falling and Flying

“A Confusion Wave beaming in from the farthest-out Far Out, scrambling up to unscramble our partially-scrambled minds.”

Daniel Nester, author of How to Be Inappropriate

“If George Bataille and Ray Bradbury had a baby, and that baby was GG Allin, and that GG Allin baby read Ursula Le Guin and Charles Bukowski in equal measure, and that now grown-up baby watched Beavis and Butt-Head reruns on summer afternoons, then we might approach describing the phantasmagoric mise-en-scènes Brett Peterson has put together here in this collection. The contact high one gets is contagious.”

one that will leave a lasting impression of your psyche.”

“Petersen’s stories are an acid-drenched, kaleidoscopic blend of genres reminiscent of Dick and Burroughs, but with their own unique breed of genius. The experience of reading The Parasite from Proto-Space and Other Stories is not unlike ingesting a powerful psychedelic

Charlene Elsby, author of Hexis

“Reading The Parasite from Proto Space feels like you’re on a footchase pursued by Mad Mr. Petersen himself. He’s got a messenger bag full of creatures he spliced together in his basement workshop, and every time you think you’re getting ahead, you turn around to check if he’s still behind you and get smacked in the face by a 50-pound alien memory worm that needs you to validate its childhood trauma.”

About the Author

Brett Petersen is the author of "The Parasite From Proto Space & Other Stories," frontman of Raziel's Tree and drummer for the Dionysus Effect. All things Brett Petersen can be found at jellyfishentity.wordpress.com

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