Five Goofy Science Fiction Stories

Readers know Hugo-award winner Kristine Kathryn Rusch for her serious, deeply thought-out science fiction. But the former editor of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction also has a silly side, one in evidence in the five stories in this collection. Only one story, ?Paparazzi of Dreams,? is at all serious, although it has a very skewed perspective of the world. ?Going Native,? pretends to seriousness, like so many news stories do. In ?Advisors at Naptime,? a child saves the world only because she wants a nap. In ?The One That Got Away,? poker players thwart an alien invasion, and in Rusch?s popular ?What Fluffy Knew,? a cat does. Rusch takes her chosen genre seriously most of the time. But fortunately for readers, she doesn?t take it seriously all of the time.