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John F. Kennedy Lives in the Future!

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I wasn't sure what to expect when I won this book. The title sounded intriguing and I have come to really enjoy short story collections recently.

This book just draws you in with the first story, which reminds me of a Douglas Adams novel, with its uses of wordplay, humor and sci-fi. Every new page and story is a treat in itself, this book is endlessly re-readable and I plan to share it with my daughter who is an inspiring writer. I found this book strangely addicting and finished it in a day.

This book was a lot of fun and laugh out loud funny. The stories made use of wit, satire, puns and double entrendre. For me, a mark of a good writer is one who can convey a big message using few words. This book was just excellent and I will be looking for more work by this author.

Matthew Glenn Ward has served up a surreal meal; a juicy absurdist burger with slapstick fries on the side. Clever, fast-paced and unpredictable. There are laugh-out-loud moments, and the convoluted wordplay will make you groan cheerily when you work it out.

'John F. Kennedy Lives in the Future' is a collection of devious and irreverent tales which elicited more than a few sly smiles from me. The stories possess an offbeat charm and oftentimes black sense of humour which makes the anthology feel a little like Paul Jennings for adults (though it's far more original than that simile implies). I highly enjoyed reading through it and eagerly await Ward's next work.

I have been reading and following the writer Matt Ward and his work for years. Matt has an eclectic style for sure, and being from Australia only brings that home to those of us not from Down Under. But with this collection, Matt's stories are in their own, new genre. Because after all science fiction and fantasy are genres where writers try to imagine strange worlds. But Matt has already created his own, strange world.

M. Stefan Strozier
World Audience publishers, NYC, USA

With satisfying absurdity, and short flights into the surreal, Ward's often poetic and clever wordplay delights with humor reminiscent of Monty Python, Groucho Marx and Woody Allen. Makes for a well needed escape from the mundane, workaday world. Fresh, spare and modern in appeal. (Though modern is such an old-fashioned word, isn't it?)