{"product_id":"mustard-seed-a-thystopian-satire-book-3-9781685137793","title":"Mustard Seed: A Thystopian Satire, Book 3","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Tom Strelich is a magician. In \u003cem\u003eMustard Seed\u003c\/em\u003e, he channels Kurt Vonnegut, Joseph Heller, and Richard Brautigan to create something entirely his own... Strelich has taken that absurdist torch and carried it forward.\" -Haris Orkin, bestselling author of the \u003cem\u003eJames Flynn Escapades\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eEnd of the world? No. Maybe later. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMr. Frostie is just a baby when his parents move, along with almost a thousand others, into the top-secret Mustard Seed time capsule. The move is occasioned by the mistaken belief that JFK's assassination puts WWIII in the thermonuclear starting blocks.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Mustard Seed they discover a massive underground complex stretching through miles of ancient lava tubes, and Mister Frostie grows up in a familiar, almost mythical mid-century small town with parks and stores and movie theatres and schools, even a miniature golf course. It's a time capsule full of people meant to preserve a tiny seed of the human experiment-just in case the human experiment blows up in the lab.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut when a teenage Mister Frostie is banished to face certain death in the radioactive-zombie-mutant-cannibal hellscape above, he learns the surface world isn't a hellscape at all but has been wobbling on above their heads the whole time. He makes it his mission to bring the people of the duck-and-cover civilization up and into the glorious, mystifying, and often dismaying world above. What could possibly go wrong?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Black Rose Writing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/13\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781685137793\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 250\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.57d","brand":"Tom Strelich","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53241170788533,"sku":"9781685137793","price":16.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/mustard-seed-a-thystopian-satire-book-3-9781685137793","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}