{"product_id":"project-blue-string-and-other-failed-instructions-9798232238193","title":"Project Blue String and Other Failed Instructions","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Cody Poston\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Toley Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Toley Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Science Fiction - Humorous\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMonsters file paperwork. Crows run the comms network. Godzilla sells Girl Scout cookies in a cul-de-sac with a very nervous HOA president.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWelcome back to Dystopocon, a universe only a few degrees off from our own-just enough for the cracks to show.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn these eighteen surreal, darkly funny, and unexpectedly tender stories, Cody Poston takes on bureaucracy, apocalypse, customer service, and the small, stubborn ways people (and not-quite-people) keep trying anyway.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInside you'll find: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA man with an AI wingman feeding him terrible pickup lines until something real slips through.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGlen, a burned-out green iguana enforcing nature's balance in triplicate as a reluctant cryptid cop.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA post-collapse lineman riding broken power lines with a flock of cheating crows, arguing over whether \"dirt\" might secretly mean hope.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn HOA president facing her greatest enemy yet: a 70-foot kaiju in a sash helping a Girl Scout troop dominate cookie season.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA quarantined island, a lonely scientist, and Velvet-a massive serpent once built as a weapon, now a living archive of memories no one else wanted to keep.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo girls at the edge of the Painted River deciding which answers get to exist while glowing koi carry those choices into the future.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom broken job-matching rituals and doomed executive retreats to cosmic strings knotted around memory, Project Blue String and Other Failed Instructions blends sci-fi humor, absurdist satire, workplace meltdown, and soft existential dread into something deeply, strangely human.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIf you enjoy Black Mirror, Kurt Vonnegut, weird speculative fiction, and laughing at the end of the world, pull this thread.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJust don't expect the universe to follow the instructions.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Toley Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47593508012183,"sku":"9798232238193","price":1237.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798232238193.webp?v=1774982212","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/project-blue-string-and-other-failed-instructions-9798232238193","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}