{"product_id":"strange-adventures-mark-r-sneller-9781736891704","title":"Strange Adventures","description":"\u003cp\u003eAs a teenager, I fell in love with stories about great scientists and doctors who discovered germs and defined the germ theory of disease. I also became captivated by science fiction and years later, managed to meld the two in many of my writings. When I look over those stories and novels, with the exception of The Mars Virus novel, I find that many of them have a common theme: the betterment of the human condition. This betterment comes about through accidental good fortune mixed in with tossing rocks into still waters. There is also the occasion when I chide the human race for our preoccupation with sniping at one another, when in reality, as a species, we can be a whole lot of fun.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdmittedly, there is a certain amount of extremism in some of the stories. To my thinking, that represents the ultimate in idealism. A few of the the stories in this volume are based on personal experience (e.g. The Incubator, The fight at the Poker Game). Another (Entity) evolved from a single sentence that grabbed me when I read Stephen Crane's short story The Open Boat. Others followed the question: What would happen if? (Time Zone, The Magical Powers of Laszlo Pearce, Telepathy School) and still others are just silliness (Soap Opera, The Floozy). Finally, I included a collection of Jeffrey Shenero short stories, in keeping with my Shenero novels Toxic Exposure and Dying to Read. These stories include: The Incubator, The Mushroom Caves of Palau, Arena Games, and When the Devil Went to College.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs always, I hope the reader enjoys this varied assortment of tales as much as I enjoyed writing them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mark R. Sneller\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1736891707\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781736891704\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Mark R. Sneller\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/17\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 548\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.88lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.00h x 4.25w x 1.11d","brand":"Mark R. Sneller","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48217538101503,"sku":"9781736891704","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7df4709f-e9fb-4ab0-bf4c-dfaf14f7f6ca.jpg?v=1771997861","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/strange-adventures-mark-r-sneller-9781736891704","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}