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Tyler Bumpus

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Tyler Bumpus is a human author from the Sunshine State. Yes, he is indeed the fabled and ghastly ‘Florida Man’ of urban legend and American folklore. When not prowling the swamps and beaches and Wendy’s drive-thrus of his native land, he occasionally writes things:



- The brand-spanking-new sci-fi/comedy MOONERS: a catastrophic sci-fi comedy



- The Swallowed World Saga, Books One & Two



- Awful high-school poetry in a spiral notebook



- A scathing fourth-grade book report on Goosebumps: You Can’t Scare Me! (Spoilers: those mud monsters weren’t even real mud monsters! Boo! Lame.)



(Two of those classics are sadly out of print.) Presently, he is at work on more Mooners novels for all of your moony needs. Follow him at tylerbumpus.com, as well as a bun

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Average rating: 3.75 · 75 ratings · 22 reviews · 4 distinct worksSimilar authors
Southern Gothic Shorts

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A Perfect Day for Bananafish by J.D. Salinger
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The name Salinger has become so singularly associated with Catcher In The Rye and its deliberately adolescent stream-of-consciousness narrative style (like it or lump it) that readers often overlook his more concise and elegant works. Notably his ‘Gl ...more
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Dune by Frank Herbert
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THE HERO AS A SYMPTOM

[Note: the following is less review than short essay exploring the subversive and sometimes misinterpreted underpinnings of Frank Herbert’s DUNE]

This may be obvious to anyone already captivated by Frank Herbert’s seminal science
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