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WINNER OF THE WONDERLAND BOOK AWARD, BEST COLLECTION OF 2010

Sad stories from a surreal world.

A fascist mustache. A desert inside a dead cat. The ghost of Franz Kafka. Primordial entities mourn the death of their child. The desperate serve tea to mysterious creatures. A hopeless romantic falls in love with a pterodactyl.

From a post-apocalyptic Los Angeles where robotic gargoyles are law, to a blighted suburbia where the elephant god Ganesh seeks revenge on a man and his android wife, Cat Brain Land is a place of domestic despair and nightmare foreboding. Where sirloin steaks enroll in daycare and ex-lovers return as tiny dolls. This is a land of camel people and the Lord of Meat. The farther into Cat Brain Land you get, the more difficult it will be to get out.

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18 February 2012
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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B007B23F8E
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Eraserhead Press (18 February 2012)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 811 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 152 pages

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Cameron Pierce is the author of eleven books, including the Wonderland Book Award-winning collection Lost in Cat Brain Land. His work has appeared in The Barcelona Review, Gray’s Sporting Journal, Hobart, The Big Click, and Vol. I Brooklyn, and has been reviewed and featured on Comedy Central and The Guardian. He was also the author of the column Fishing and Beer, where he interviewed acclaimed angler Bill Dance and John Lurie of Fishing with John. Pierce is the head editor of Lazy Fascist Press and has edited three anthologies, including The Best Bizarro Fiction of the Decade. He lives with his wife in Astoria, Oregon.

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David

Four Stars

Reviewed in Canada on 27 April 2016

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you should probably be reading this book and not this review.
you're probably not even reading this review though.

Robert I. Hedges

"Television Or Death. Choose Now."

Reviewed in the United States on 27 June 2014

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Cameron Pierce has an unusual talent for darkly surreal fiction, and "Lost in Cat Brain Land" is a good general introduction to his outlook and themes. All of his work requires a very specific audience to appreciate it, as unusual science fiction elements routinely combine with themes of angst, robots, paranoia, alcohol, fascism, and lack of free will to produce uneasy stories. I liked the short story format here, preferring it to his somewhat longer works like "Pickled Apocalypse of Pancake Island," but I found this collection to have ups and downs. While elements like chickens ruling the universe (no more egg eating!) and the excellent conclusion to "Death of a Dog Eater" (one of the collection's best,) are compelling in their own way, the weirdness and shock value sometimes gets repetitive and, frankly, boring (watch for multiple maggot and tentacle references, as well as other general pestilence imagery, for instance.)

Pierce can write genuinely intriguing sentences which when they catch you off guard can truly elevate the storytelling, e.g. "The mustache turns my nose into a vodka distillery." Or if fascist mustaches aren't your thing, you might enjoy "The earwig's skull cracked in two, emitting a flurry of bats made of cheese." This brings me to my final point. Most of these stories do have moments of inspiration and frequently are interestingly constructed. Even the lesser of the efforts has interesting elements, and the cheese bat quote is actually taken from my least favorite story in the collection, "Drain Angel," about a mutant earwig baby and his totally dysfunctional mother which would be interesting at half the length, but goes on far too long. I find Pierce easier to take in small pieces, which is why I favor the shorter stories in the collection (e.g. "A Scorpion Town in California.") People who are truly into dark and bizarre fiction will love this book, but all others must be very open-minded to enjoy the experience.

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Scott Cole

You really need to get Lost

Reviewed in the United States on 3 January 2013

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Cameron Pierce has quickly climbed to the top of the Bizarro stepladder, and this award-winning collection of short, strange tales is evidence of why this has happened. Amazing(ly weird) stuff. Enter a world where an angel in the shower drain, a child made of meat, and a fascist mustache are all completely normal things. Enter Cat Brain Land.

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Eugenia

What did I just read...

Reviewed in the United States on 9 November 2015

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Whiplash-level weirdness. At best hilariously and unapologetically imaginative. At worst, incomprehensible.

Creature

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Reviewed in the United States on 29 January 2011

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This is a pretty awesome collection of surreal short stories. I won't go into details, just buy it, it's 10 bucks, and well worth it.

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