Kings of Infinite Space: A Novel

Immensely witty...thoroughly entertaining.--The Washington Post Book World. Paul Trilby is having a bad day. If he were to be honest with himself Paul Trilby would have to admit that hes having a bad life. His wife left him. Three subsequent girlfriends left him. Hes fallen from a top-notch university teaching job to a textbook publisher to eventually working as a temp writer for the Texas Department of General Services. And even here in this land of carpeted partitions and cheap lighting fixtures Paul cannot escape the curse his life has become. For it is not until he begins a tentative romance with the offices sassy mail girl that he begins to notice things are truly wrong. Strange sounds come from the air conditioning vents the ceiling bulges a body disappears. Mysterious men lurk about town wearing thick glasses and pocket protectors.... Kings of Infinite Space is a hilarious and horrifying spoof on our everyday lives and gives true voice to the old adage Work is Hell.