SPIES & SAUCERS & BROWNIES!

Like anybody else, when my mother-in-law brings over some belated birthday brownies she baked herself, my first instinct is to use them to promote a book I wrote ten years ago. If you listened to my recent interview on Seriah Azkath's WHERE DID THE ROAD GO?, you heard me discuss my 2014 novella collection, SPIES AND SAUCERS. If your interest was piqued at all, there are still copies of the hardcover edition available on Amazon. Click HERE to order your copy of SPIES AND SAUCERS... TODAY!!!

PRAISE FOR SPIES AND SAUCERS:

 

"Robert Guffey’s book Spies and Saucers presents three novellas about UFOs, Men in Black, strange creatures and even stranger occurrences. These tales are set in the '50s, but they sound as fresh as any modern story of UFOs and strange creatures. Reading in bed or right before bed is not recommended for the faint of heart."

 

--Tessa B. Dick, author of Philip K. Dick: Remembering Firebright and My Life on the Edge of Reality

 

"Robert Guffey’s Spies and Saucers is an unforgettable experience. In this book, the three tales are distinct and yet also have clear thematic relationships to one another, all evoking an insightful view of the wonders and the fears of America in the '50s. They also draw upon a rich array of pop culture, ranging from B-horror movies like The Devil Bat (1940) with Bela Lugosi to Irish folklore and the golden age of science fiction novels.

 

"These allusions enriched both occasions I’ve read Spies and Saucers (thankfully I have a hardback, as I’ll be returning to it again in the near future). At the same time, I don’t believe knowledge of the various films and books to which Guffey refers is necessary, no more so than it is for reading and loving Thomas Pynchon.

 

"Spies and Saucers is thoughtful--at times dark, at times darkly humorous--but always enjoyable.

 

"Along with Cormac McCarthy, Guffey is my favorite modern fiction writer. Spies and Saucers provides ample proof as to why I feel that way.”

 

--Gary D. Rhodes, author of The Perils of Moviegoing in America

 

 

"Guffey's extraordinary fictional narrative is an extension of his interest in conspiracy theories and the wild suppositions and events these curious belief systems declare as truth [...]. Spies and Saucers resonates as a reconstruction of that mid-century media and those exceptional, nearly mystical experiences when flying saucers hovered above us and communists, hidden in doorways, watched us with subversive intent. Guffey's novel seems spontaneously generated from the troposphere of fear hanging above us at the beginning of a new, byte-infused century, a literary tulpa expressing the nexus of propaganda, false narratives, and outright lies we experience every day."

 

--The Mailer Review