Lucy A Snyder

Installing Linux on a Dead Badger (And Other Oddities)

Author: Snyder, Lucy A.
Artists: Christman, D. E. and McClinton, Malcolm
Format: Humor and Short Stories
Type: Collection
Page Count: 112pp.
Pub. Date: October 15, 2007
Publisher: Creative Guy Publishing

Installing Linux on a Dead Badger (and other Oddities) is a collection of Lucy Snyder’s humorous essays, fiction and articles, some culled from places like “Strange Horizons” and “Spacesuits and Six-Guns” and some brand new. This collection of thirteen short stories, articles and essays from Lucy A. Snyder will appeal to any fan of zombies, aliens or installation manuals.

Here’s what Wikipedia said about Lucy, last time we checked: “Lucy A. Snyder is an American science fiction, fantasy, humor, and nonfiction writer. She grew up in San Angelo, Texas but moved to Bloomington, Indiana for graduate studies at Indiana University and currently lives in Columbus, Ohio with her husband Gary A. Braunbeck.

Snyder served as an editor for HMS Beagle, an online bioscience publication produced by Elsevier. She has also contributed technical articles to publications such as Electronic Products.”

Table of Contents:

• Trolls Gone Wild
• In The Shadow of the Fryolator
• Faery Cats: The Cutest Killers
• The Great VuDu Teen Linux Zombie Massacree
• Wake Up Naked Monkey You’re Going To Die
• Authorities Concerned Over Rise of Teen Linux Gangs
• Graveyard Shift
• Dead Men Don’t Need Coffee Breaks
• Business Insourcing Offers Life After Death
• Corporate Vampires Sink Teeth Into Business World
• Unemployed Playing Dead To Find Work
• Your Corporate Network and the Forces of Darkness
• Installing Linux on a Dead Badger: User’s Notes

Sparks and Shadows

Author: Snyder, Lucy A.
Format: Trade Paperback
Type: Short Story Collection
Page Count: 356pp.
Pub. Date: May 2007
Publisher: HW Press

This debut collection of seventeen short stories, seven poems and four humor essays from Lucy A. Snyder will appeal to any reader of the dark fantastic. By turns touching, chilling, surreal, wryly satiric, seductive, macabre and laugh-out-loud funny, this book will take you from adventures in the farthest reaches of outer space to the darkest shadows beneath the surface of modern America.

Table of Contents:

• A Preference For Silence
• Roses of Gomorrah
• Boxlunch
• Feel the Love
• Burning Bright
• Sara and the Telecats
• The Sheets Were Clean And Dry
• The Dickification of the American Female
• So Lonely As The Grave
• The Dogs of Summer
• … And Her Shadow
• Flesh and Blood
• Through Thy Bounty
• The Dolls’ Hearts
• … Next on Channel 77
• Forgetting
• Darwin’s Children
• Soul Searching
• Dime Novel
• The Fish and the Bicycle
• The Jarred Heart
• Glowfish
• The Monster Between The Sparks
• Photograph of a Lady, Circa 1890
• Permian Basin Blues
• Camp Songs: Innocent Fun or Diabolical Brainwashing Plot?
• Menstruation For Men

Blood Magic

Author: Snyder, Lucy A.
Format: CD-ROM
Type: Short Story Collection
Page Count: 416pp.
Pub. Date: October 1, 2002
Publisher: Eggplant Literary Productions

Author and editor Lucy A. Snyder collects four disturbing short stories into a collection to keep you company during the lengthening cold nights. Join four characters, willing to plunge into the abyss in their search for the one thing that will make sense of their mad lives.

The Dogs of Summer — Betty McCoy is looking for her place in the world, whether that is next to her abusive husband, who once saved her life, or with Ian Dando, the old man she brings meals to and who shares a history with Betty that she can’t even guess at.

Flesh and Blood — Mike has found his place, in the bed of Olivia, an elder vampire with an insatiable appetite. But just as he’s settling into his new life, a woman from his past appears with an unexpected problem. But she just might hold the key to Mike’s salvation.

. . . And her Shadow — Eleven-year-old Charlotte faces her oncoming adolescence and her uncaring parents with dread. And then comes a creature that exacts a promise from Charlie, power beyond imagining, as long as Charlie goes along with the creature’s plans. If Charlie tires of the plans, though, can she escape her dark shadow?

Soul Searching — “I want what everybody wants . . . that special someone who’ll make me . . . complete. I feel so alone, and I think you do too. Are you the man I’m looking for? I said yesterday that you’re a part of things, but I’ve got to make sure . . .” Miko tells Henry. After Miko steps into Henry’s bookstore, his whole life changes and nightmares that he hasn’t had in forty years return to remind him what he’s tried like hell to forget.