What would you expect to find if you traveled back in time to the Garden of Eden? Adam and Eve? The tree of knowledge? A wicked serpent? How about some giant fucking flying sharks! That's right, I said sharks. Biblical sharks. Sharks that are bigger than city buses. Sharks that can swim through the air and through the ground just as easy as swimming through water. The Garden of Eden is swarming with these mammoth killing machines and they'll eat just about anything or anyone they come across.
A group of fanatical religious tourists from the future travel back in time to meet Adam and Eve. Unfortunately, their time ship crashes, killing the majority of the crew (including the leprechauns) and leaving them stranded in this strange shark-infested land. Among the survivors are: Ernest who has the ability to turn people into mannequins, Ira who wields a razor-edged bible for a weapon, Wayne a giant wizard head with fat lizard legs, Donkey the hunchback halfwit, Anton the birdman, Rattlesnake Doctor, Ancestor, and Sturgeonwolf.
This cult of deranged priests soon discovers that Eden is a far more surreal and dangerous place than they ever could have imagined. It is going to take everything they've got in order to survive long enough to find another way back home.
Shark Hunting in Paradise Garden is a crazy, wild ride of a story. It is what William Burroughs's imagination would look like if turned into Japanese anime.
"A deliberate and action-packed religious satire that manages to make its point." - New Times
"A bizarro tour de force!" - The Horror Fiction Review
"You remember that old Dungeons and Dragons cartoon? Imagine if there was an episode written by William Burroughs, Takashi Miike, and other assorted crazy people. Now imagine they decided to add some SF elements. That's what it's like. Crazy fun!" - Jordan Krall, author of Fistful of Feet and Squid Pulp Blues
"The best book the bizarro movement has given us yet." - Forrest Armstrong, author of Asphalt Flowerhead
"Cameron Pierce has the three things that allowed Dante, Swift, Voltaire, Blake and others poke fun at organized religion and say something while so many others leave us with a "Well, Duh!" feeling: he has brains, he has a heart and he has too much creative conscience to patronize." - Garrett Cook, author of Archelon Ranch and Jimmy Plush, Teddy Bear Detective
