Anomaly Flats

Name: Anomaly Flats
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Clayton Smith
ISBN: 9781541438613

Author: Clayton Smith

Narrator: Teri Schnaubelt

Unabridged: 8 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 11/12/2019

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction, Humorous Fiction

Synopsis

Somewhere just off the interstate, in the heart of the American Midwest, there's a quaint, quirky town where the stars in the sky circle a hypnotic void . . . where magnetic fields play havoc with time and perception . . . where metallic rain and plasma rivers and tentacles in the plumbing are simply part of the unsettling charm.

Mallory Jenkins is about to experience the unique properties of this place for herself—she'll have no choice, considering the collapsed bridge that rerouted her urgent and mysterious trip to Saskatchewan, forcing her straight into the heart of town, where her Impala has an inexplicable breakdown. She intends to stay overnight—just until the auto repair shop can make the fix in the morning and send her on her way. But Mallory will soon encounter Dr. Lewis Burnish, a scientist who's studied the town for a dozen years and knows more about its strangeness than even the locals do. And when she accidentally-on-purpose creates his evil clone, she'll set off a series of events that could unleash the ultimate evil upon the town and wreak havoc on the world at large. Life in a small town is like that sometimes.

Welcome to Anomaly Flats. Have some waffles, meet the folks, and enjoy the scenery . . . and if you happen to be in Walmart, whatever you do, don't go down aisle eight. Don't ever go down aisle eight.

About Clayton Smith

Clayton Smith is the author of the novels Apocalypticon, Anomaly Flats, Na Akua, and Mabel Gray and the Wizard Who Swallowed the Sun, as well as the short story collections It Came from Anomaly Flats and Pants on Fire: A Collection of Lies. His short stories have been featured in Write City Magazine, Dumb White Husband, and Canyon Voices. He is cofounder of Dapper Press and a lecturer in the Business & Entrepreneurship Department at Columbia College Chicago.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bandit on September 10, 2016

There once was a lovely tv show Eureka about a regular guy who happens upon a small town where wildly abnormal things and potentially lethal things occurred on near daily basis. Sure, it went on for far too long as tv shows are wont to do and the scales occasionally tipped from adorable to predictab......more

Goodreads review by Lori on May 28, 2017

Read 10/24/15 - 11/4/15 3 Stars - Recommended to readers who don't try to anticipate where a book will lead them Pages: 238 Publisher: Dapper Press Released: October 2015 Welcome to Anomaly Flats, a strange little town out in the middle of nowhere that's tough to find and even tougher to leave behind. Fr......more

Goodreads review by Rebecca on November 10, 2015

Anomaly Flats focuses on a town with many quirks, some of fate, a few anthropological and many topological. We first encounter the place through the cantankerous eyes of Mallory, a woman who got out of bed on the wrong side and decided to keep running. She is annoying and off-putting and I would not......more

Goodreads review by Jess on May 18, 2022

Anomaly Flats has an insane amount of positive reviews and.... I hated it, unpopular opinion but this was not for me at all I tried but it was silly and so much drooling in it, I read some dark stuff but the drool had me gagging. It was like twin peaks, Disney and the X files wrote a book but it's too......more

Goodreads review by Keith on May 04, 2017

No! No! No! The story should not have ended like this! I enjoyed this SO much. It was bizarre at every turn. Every inch of Anomaly Flats wants to kill you, change you or ruin your day. But it's also got a subtle charm and as one of the characters says, it's fascinating. I wanted to learn more about......more