About the book: 2005 / Distant future? Online vacation for “lonely hearts.” The romance of the virtual castle is guaranteed! Relatives and friends of murder victims have the right to KILL the killer's CLONE. The law triumphs! The near future? An idiot president tries to negotiate with a delegation of extremely irritated “strangers”... The ideals of democracy are invincible! A young gentleman from the Deep South protects his beloved and the whole world from universal entropy... by means available only to a REAL SOUTHERNER! Collection for which Terry Bisson has been called the Kurt Vonnegut of our time. Truly EXTREME FICTION!