Description

Initially published in Asimov's Science-Fiction whilst the short stories "The Advantage of the World," "Get Me to the Church promptly," and "The Hole in the Hole," this creative and cool book includes the stories, offering the inspired activities of Wilson Wu, a jack-of-all-trades who utilizes his modern background to resolve a number of crazy advanced problems. An Ivy-League scholar, Wu is just a rock artist, a Volvo mechanic, an effort attorney, a camel driver, an aeronautics engineer, an entomological meteorologist, and, most of all, a math magician having a method for each event. A blessing for his buddies and the universe, Wu utilizes his modern expertise to assure excellent weather for an Al wedding, avoid the impending collapse of the universe, and pull an abandoned lunar rover in the surface of the moon into a junkyard in Brooklyn. Creative and irreverent, these activities display Bissonis intelligent, amusing, and satirical style that's gained him Hugo and Nebula awards and reviews to Mark Twain and Kurt Vonnegut.