"This episodic, somewhat Atrocity Exhibition-esque book (not a novel, but not a collection of short stories either) is laid out in short sections titled 'Metamorphosis No.1', and 'Metamorphosis No.2' and so forth, up through 'Metamorphosis No.97'. It's an endless Thanksgiving Day Parade of the imagination, a procession of story microcosms scintillating with razor sharp passages.

"Experimental it is, in a way, with its wordplays and casual obscenities woven side by side with images of eerie beauty and eccentric characterization. But it's also a masterful tour de force of the imagination." --John Shirley (in "Beyond Cyberpunk", Science Fiction Eye , Volume 1, Number 5, July 1989).

"Both a parody and homage to Ovid's poetic story cycle, Metamorphosis , Don Webb's version of that work of fantastic mini-fictions contains at least 97 different reasons (i.e., stories) to read this book.

"...One of the real treasures of the small press world." --Richard Kadrey (in Covert Culture Sourcebook 2.0 , US pbk, 1994).

"Imagine Sir James George Frazier meeting William S.Burroughs and H.P.Lovecraft for a quick round of musical whoopie cushions. Don Webb's wit, erudition, and imagination seem to have no limits... He creates entire worlds with a few luminous details, then shatters them to glittering fragments." --Lewis Shiner.

Don Webb Homepage
(located at Fringeware... includes his Letters to the Fringe )

Review of Uncle Ovid's Exercise Book by Lawrence Person
(in Nova Express , Volume 2, Number 3, Spring/Summer 1989... e-mail: lawrence@bga.com)

WebbWorks
(Anachron Library entry... complete bibliography of short stories, poems, essays, and reviews, plus links... compliments of Don Webb)

To reach Don Webb himself:

e-mail:
Dwebb9@aol.com

Or at:
0004200716@mcimail.com