The key ingredients that make the society in the book “Good News from Outer Space” by John Kessel seem so full of mordant farce are chaos, technology, belief and faith run amok. The book is set in our present year of 1999, and it seems that all of the conventional thoughts and explanations that help life make sense, are no longer needed. All that remain are the lunatic explanations that have gained adherence within society. Although the society in the book might seem more like an exaggerated version of our current way of life, what’s to say that in a couple of years or months, ours will not mirror the one in th....

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