Science fiction is usually defined as a story that contain element of science , but rarely does scifi actually take the material body of a scientific paper or research volume . That ’s why Janet Chui and Jason Erik Lundberg ’s A Field Guide to Surreal Botany from Two Cranes Press is so startling and pleasurable to read . This slender , beautifully - illustrated volume is an anthology of 45 fictionalize flora mintage — it ’s fable written to resemble science , and which comes out sounding almost like poetry . With contributor like Jay Lake , Vera Nazarian , and John Bowker , the volume is packed with satiric observations and double-dyed silliness . Here you ’ll discover everything from the rarified Poseur Nosehairs plant ( which spring up into your mind ) , to Queen Victoria ’s Bloomers , a plant life that lures others into pollenate it by using sexual legerdemain . Then there is the Forget Me Bastard , which aggressively beam and slough leaves when its caretaker fights ; or you may contemplate natural philosophy with the Twilight Luon - Sibir , which lives a short life in a province of chance . It ’s a unusual and detailed book , rather uttermost in its interpretation of what science fabrication can be , and therefore most welcome indeed . A Field Guide to Surreal Botany[via Two Hart Crane ]
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