Wise-cracking robots, slow-motion bullets, time machines that don't work the way they're supposed to, evil holograms, androids with brain donors, a truth-telling plague with multicolor symptoms, a man who carries four watches and a bad punch line... these are the curious, sometimes disturbing, but always intriguing fantasies of Richard Zwicker, a small-town New England school teacher by day and droll dreamer after dark. In this first collection of...