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Mustard Seed: A Thystopian Satire, Book 3
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Series: The Dog Logic Triptych, Book 3
HumorScience FictionGeneral Fiction
Publisher Price: $18.95
ISBN13: 9781685137793
Publisher: Black Rose Writing
Published: Aug 13 2026
Pages: 250
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.57 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Tom Strelich is a magician. In Mustard Seed, he channels Kurt Vonnegut, Joseph Heller, and Richard Brautigan to create something entirely his own... Strelich has taken that absurdist torch and carried it forward. -Haris Orkin, bestselling author of the James Flynn Escapades
End of the world? No. Maybe later.
Mr. Frostie is just a baby when his parents move, along with almost a thousand others, into the top-secret Mustard Seed time capsule. The move is occasioned by the mistaken belief that JFK's assassination puts WWIII in the thermonuclear starting blocks.
In Mustard Seed they discover a massive underground complex stretching through miles of ancient lava tubes, and Mister Frostie grows up in a familiar, almost mythical mid-century small town with parks and stores and movie theatres and schools, even a miniature golf course. It's a time capsule full of people meant to preserve a tiny seed of the human experiment-just in case the human experiment blows up in the lab.
But when a teenage Mister Frostie is banished to face certain death in the radioactive-zombie-mutant-cannibal hellscape above, he learns the surface world isn't a hellscape at all but has been wobbling on above their heads the whole time. He makes it his mission to bring the people of the duck-and-cover civilization up and into the glorious, mystifying, and often dismaying world above. What could possibly go wrong?
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