Extreme Dentistry

<p><strong>Open wide... and pray for your life.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>Middle-aged middle-income and lapsed Mormon Arthur Percy felt his life lurch from a difficult normality onto the rails of a carnival ride heading somewhere too much like the <em>Twilight Zone</em> for his liking. Perhaps it is more the Anti-<em>Twilight</em> 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?</p><p><br></p><p>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 <em>Extreme Dentistry</em> explores love and loss terrible workplaces babysitting and those seediest centres of monstrous activity both human and inhuman-shopping malls.</p><p><br></p><p><em>Praise for the writing of Hugh A. D. Spencer</em></p><p>Hugh's work never fails to crack me up and make me think. ~ Cory Doctorow author of <em>Little Brother</em> and <em>Homeland</em></p><p>Lucid lyrical and savvy. ~ Paul Levinson author of <em>Unburning Alexandria</em> and <em>The New New Media</em></p><p>If you like to laugh and cower at the same time-if you like science fiction that is simultaneously progressive and retro-then you need to read this... Like nothing I've ever read before. Highly recommended. ~ Dale Sproule author of <em>Psychedelia Gothique</em></p>